Purpose: Safety is a basic need for all people, including administrators, teachers and students, and parents' concerns about the lack of safety in schools is one of the challenges of education and development that has attracted the attention of researchers, experts and
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Purpose: Safety is a basic need for all people, including administrators, teachers and students, and parents' concerns about the lack of safety in schools is one of the challenges of education and development that has attracted the attention of researchers, experts and practitioners of educational systems. The purpose of this research was to design a safe school for elementary schools. The research design was qualitative.
Method: The participants of the current research were principals and teachers of primary schools in West Azerbaijan Province, and 20 principals and teachers of primary schools were selected to identify their perceptions and views on safe school with the purposeful sampling approach with standard technique. The selection of participants was based on theoretical saturation and the tools used to collect information from semi-structured interviews. To check the initial validity of the information, the criteria of acceptability and reliability of qualitative data were used. Theme analysis method was used to analyze the data. After coding the data, 57 basic themes, 5 organizing themes and one overarching theme were extracted.
Findings: The findings of the research showed that some of the components of a safe school in primary schools of West Azarbaijan province are physical security, emotional-psychological security, healthy social relations within the school, environmental security and non-violence of the teacher.
Conclusion: To increase the security of elementary schools, all components of a safe school should be paid attention to, including physical security, emotional-psychological security, healthy relationships within the school, environmental security and non-violence teacher.
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