Reducing Violence Among Disadvantaged Children Through After-School Programs

The purpose of this pedagogical research is to investigate the reduction of violence among disadvantaged children through extracurricular programs. This research looks at the problem of violence in one of the general schools, on the outskirts of Cluj, in grades 5 and 6. While some consider violence between children an isolated phenomenon, others consider it non-existent, and others consider it a deep problem that can influence students' behavior.The importance of factors include internal causes: lack of culture, family education, vulnerability and external causes: violent games, environment. Are including descriptive analyses, correlations, Anova tests and T-student tests. The influence of the respondent's gender on the teasing (p=0.029), on the irony (p=0.009), on the intimidation (p=0.027) and on the damage and destruction of objects by colleagues (p=0.036). Most students come from dysfunctional families and single-parent families, with a low standard of living and living in the city's waste collection area.