Preventing aggression at school using educational transactional analysis

Abstract

The author, pointing to research results on the phenomenon of aggression among children and adolescents, postulates the need for schools to take more effective means to prevent aggression. She proposes using transactional analysis as a psychological theory and its application in education as a pedagogical practice. She discusses selected concepts connected with transactional analysis (Ego states, transactions, life positions, strokes, discounting, and passivity) and their links with the problem of aggression. She also shows how knowing these concepts may help teachers understand the roots of students’ aggressive behaviour, respond adequately, and take preventive actions. This article is only an outline of the issue presenting the potential of educational transactional analysis as the basis of educators’ and class teachers’ pedagogical work, with particular emphasis on preventing aggression