Violence rooted from school and family: Voices of Vietnamese insiders

The article aims to point out a social phenomenon in Vietnam currently which is recognized as both visible and invisible violence from parents and teachers to their children or learners at different levels of general education16. The focus of this study is to interpret violence as a result of parents and teachers’ excessive demand on the study of their children or learners. A survey was employed to collect data from 265 primary and high school students about the behavior of their parents and teachers on issues related their learning to clarify the research problem. The findings analyze the phenomenon from emphasizing the forms of violence significantly resulting from teachers’ behavior when young learners make mistakes at school and parents’ concerns and behavior towards their children’s learning; simultaneously, the consequences of this type of violence are also examined from the insiders’ voices of the learners in a comprehensive picture for various types of violence. These forms of violence may not be recognized in other contexts, but in Vietnamese families and schools. The results of the article can contribute considerably to not only raise awareness in Vietnam specifically and in Asia generally about of the notions of violence on our young generation but also recognize the needs of young generations in their learning.