BULLYING IN AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION IN PUERTO LÓPEZ – META.

This research aims to investigate the problems of physical behaviors and aggressions such as hitting and pushing, psychological and verbal such as name calling, insults, teasing, criticism and isolation; which generate difficulties in coexistence and are associated with bullying. To respond to this problem, the general objective was to understand the causes of bullying in adolescents from 12 to 17 years old, in a public educational institution in the municipality of Puerto López - Meta. The foregoing is carried out through a qualitative study and phenomenological method, since this aims to investigate the experiences of the
target population in their environments. As results, the experiences of adolescents, parents and teachers were analyzed from five analysis categories that allowed the understanding of the phenomenon, which were bullying, motives, participants, feelings and family network.