Pupils spend much of their time in school, where they are in many interactions with teachers and peers, among whom peer violence occurs. In the master's thesis, we drew attention to the often overlooked form of peer violence - relational violence and examined it from the perspective of teachers and students in primary school. Pupils who are victims of relational violence are often overlooked by both peers and teachers because it is a subtle and difficult-to-notice form of violence. The study involved 276 participants, of which 61 were teachers and 215 were students in the fourth to sixth grades of elementary school. We obtained the results with two instruments - the Scale of Peer Violence at School and the Questionnaire on the Severity of Peer Violence. The results showed, that teachers and students agree that they most often perceive verbal violence and that students perceive relational violence more often than teachers. Girls are more active in relational violence than boys. Furthermore, in the case of relational violence, teachers have been shown to be the least empathetic towards victims in relation to other forms of violence, assessing it as the least serious and are least likely to intervene in this violence. Compared to students, teachers report that they intervene in cases of relational violence to a greater extent than perceived by students. Pupils also report that they take relational violence the least seriously and are less empathetic towards the victims of this violence. The research further showed that there was no change in practice among teachers who attended peer violence education and those who had not been in training. There is also no perceived difference in the perception and treatment of relational violence between teachers who are class teachers and those who are not. The topic of the work is important because we also found in our research that relational violence is still the form of violence that is most hidden among peers and teachers, and that it is important to pay extra attention to it. It has been shown that the issue of relational violence requires awareness raising in both teachers and pupils, so that the relational violence will be recognised and thus also dealt with in schools more frequently.
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