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2025, Volume 12, Issue 3: 418-433. doi: 10.3934/Neuroscience.2025023
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A teacher's perceptions of the impacts of the Zero Violence Brave Club in students' wellbeing

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    Department of Sociology, University of Barcelona, Av/ Diagonal 690, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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    Department of Pedagogy, Rovira i Virgili University, Carrer de l'Escorxador, s/n, 43003 Tarragona, Spain
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    Department of Didactics and School Organisation, University of the Basque Country UPV-EHU, Oñati Plaza 3, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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    Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences, Autonomous University of Barcelona, C/ de la Vinya 738, 08913 Bellaterra, Spain
  • Received: 11 June 2025 Revised: 03 September 2025 Accepted: 22 September 2025 Published: 28 September 2025

  • In recent years, there has been increasing focus in neuroscience on the influence of social relationships and experience in the brain. Socioneuroscience has been created to make contributions to fully understand the social relations that influence the architecture and functioning of the brain. The scientific literature has shown the impact of the coercive dominant discourse that promotes violent relationships on neural changes that lead to negative health consequences. However, less research has been conducted on the changes produced when violent relationships are overcome and prevented. This article advances in this direction by analyzing a teacher's perception on the impact of the Zero Violence Brave Club (ZVBC) intervention on his students' wellbeing. To that end, data collection through communicative observation was gathered over five months of the ZVBC implementation in a 2nd grade primary school classroom. Our results indicated that, according to the teacher, relationships among students improved from the very first week throughout the implementation, improving the classroom climate, students' motivation, and wellbeing.

    Citation: Marta Soler-Gallart, Aitor Galar, Ane Olabarria, Ane López de Aguileta, Aitor Alzaga, Garazi López de Aguileta, Cristina Pulido, Ramon Flecha. A teacher's perceptions of the impacts of the Zero Violence Brave Club in students' wellbeing[J]. AIMS Neuroscience, 2025, 12(3): 418-433. doi: 10.3934/Neuroscience.2025023

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  • In recent years, there has been increasing focus in neuroscience on the influence of social relationships and experience in the brain. Socioneuroscience has been created to make contributions to fully understand the social relations that influence the architecture and functioning of the brain. The scientific literature has shown the impact of the coercive dominant discourse that promotes violent relationships on neural changes that lead to negative health consequences. However, less research has been conducted on the changes produced when violent relationships are overcome and prevented. This article advances in this direction by analyzing a teacher's perception on the impact of the Zero Violence Brave Club (ZVBC) intervention on his students' wellbeing. To that end, data collection through communicative observation was gathered over five months of the ZVBC implementation in a 2nd grade primary school classroom. Our results indicated that, according to the teacher, relationships among students improved from the very first week throughout the implementation, improving the classroom climate, students' motivation, and wellbeing.



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    Acknowledgments


    This article draws on the knowledge created by the coordinator team of the Horizon Europe project REVERS-ED. Trends on educational inequalities over time and successful interventions that contribute to reverse them, selected and funded by the European Commission under the Grant Agreement N. 101132470.

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    The authors declare no conflict of interest.

    Authors' contributions


    Conceptualization: RF, MS; Methodology: RF, MS, AG, AO; Formal analysis: ALA, GLA; Writing – original draft: GLA, AA, ALA, AG; Writing – review and editing: all authors. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

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