Abstract
In the University of Costa Rica, the students perform 300 hours of community work (tcu),
in order to give back to the community part of what the public autonomous university
invests in their formation. tcu no. 618 is oriented to the rescue of educational methods
different from ‘academic’ day school, seeking to provide support to nigh, professional or
technical high schools that, on one hand, show poor approval rates and, on the other,
show successful experiences in school-community involvement. A workshop on bullying
took place in a night high school in the metropolitan area of San José. The students
involved expressed a “naive” knowledge of the inter-linkages between structural violence
with school violence and expressed rejection and unease at verbal abuse, humiliation and
mockery, which is full of xenophobic, sexist and exclusive meanings.