Intact social relationships are a basic prerequisite for successful teaching. Aggressive behavior on the part of students and teachers impairs these relationships, makes teaching-learning processes more difficult, and endangers the healthy development of all those involved. Research can support schools in dealing with aggressive behavior.

While aggression research has become increasingly specialized in recent years and has researched individual special forms of aggression such as bullying, schools are confronted with the whole range of aggressive behavior. The study “Aggression in Teacher-Student Interactions”, or LISA for short, takes a holistic approach and examines different types of aggressive behavior on the part of students and teachers. It takes a multi-perspective approach to analyzing how frequently such behaviors occur and how they are interrelated. We understand aggressive behavior as an interactional problem in which several parties (students or teachers) interact with each other and thus contribute to the further course of events. LISA also investigates which factors influence aggressive behavior on the part of students and teachers.

LISA thus makes an important contribution to schools and teachers by looking at aggressive behavior in interactions and identifying key influencing factors that can prevent escalating patterns of interaction. These findings can help to sensitize schools in dealing with aggressive behavior.