Topic: Bullying

Research Title: The Impact of Bullying in Education

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1. Objectives Each year millions of children and youth experience Allison, J. (2008). Eyes On
the humiliation and devastating effects of bullying. Bullying Workshops.
This toolkit will help you: Bullying damages the physical, social, and emotional Retrieved from
well-being of its victims. http://eyesonbullying.org/cont
1. Understand the extent, seriousness, and act.html
dynamics of bullying It also hurts the children who bully, as well as those
2. Recognize and respond early and who watch it happen. In fact, bullying creates a climate
effectively to behaviors that can lead to of fear, callousness, and disrespect for everyone
bullying involved.
3. Learn about new, effective strategies for
controlling bullying Bullying begins in the preschool years, peaks in early
4. Prepare children to recognize and adolescence, and continues, but with less frequency,
respond effectively to early bullying into the high school years. But bullying does NOT
behavior have to be a part of growing up.
5. Teach children how everyone—bullies,
victims, bystanders, and supportive adults
—can help control bullying
6. Create an environment where everyone
understands that bullying behaviors are
unacceptable, harmful, and preventable
7. Empower yourself and children to
actively intervene to prevent and stop
bullying
2. Objective: Bullying is one of the most significant school West J Emerg Med. 2011 Jul;
Bullying is a serious public health problem problems experienced by children and adolescents and 12(3): 316–323. Retrieved
that may include verbal or physical injury affects approximately 30% of students in U.S. public from
as well as social isolation or exclusion. As schools. This included 13% as bullies, 10.6% as https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
a result, research is needed to establish a victims and 6.3% as bully-victims. /pmc/articles/PMC3117608/
database for policies and interventions
designed to prevent bullying and its Bullying has been defined as repeated exposure to
negative effects. This paper presents a case negative events within the context of an imbalanced
 study that contributes to the literature by power relationship. Bullying is a serious public health
describing an intervention for bullies that problem that may include verbal or physical injury, as
has implications for practice and related well as social isolation or exclusion. As a result,
policies regarding bullying. research is needed to establish a database for
interventions designed to prevent bullying and its
negative effects within the context of school policies.
3. To identify and understand Furthering Bullying Prevention Adults should Help (NN). Retrieved from
1. Various bullying behaviors young people build skills for dealing with bullying https://slideplayer.com/slide/4
2. The scope of bullying problem Help young people develop positive social skills 808394/
3. Who bullies Supervise children on the playground, in the hallways,
4. The warning signs that the child is being etc. Take immediate action when bullying is witnessed
bullied or reported. National Crime Prevention Council34
5. Strategies children can use to deal with Why isn’t “fighting back” considered an effective
bullying strategy for dealing with bullying? When I was a kid, I
6. Steps adult can take to address bullying fought back and the bullying stopped. Fighting back is
not an effective strategy because of the negative
consequences associated with it.

If a young person fights back against the person

bullying there is a risk of Physical injuries as a result
of the fight Suspension (many schools have zero
tolerance policies) Increased bullying/retaliation Belief
by the young person that violence is an acceptable way
to deal with problems As a presenter who seeks to
reduce violence in the community and ensure that all
members of the community are safe, you must not
endorse the use of violence to deal with bullying
situations.
4. Aims and Objectives The School recognises the gravity of bullying, and its (NN). (October 2012).
psychological harm to young people and children, Retrieved from
Bullying is defined as behaviour by an leading even to suicide. We recognise that the School http://www.lanternofknowled
individual or group, repeated over time, plays a major part in preventing harm to our pupils by ge.org.uk/wp-
that intentionally hurts another individual encouraging good methods of communication and a content/uploads/Anti-
or group either physically or emotionally. culture of friendship and safety. Bullying-Policy.pdf
The aim of this policy is to implement the
School’s acknowledgement that bullying, We recognise the importance of actively seeking to
including racist, religious, cultural, sexual, prevent bullying, through educating pupils and training
sexist and homophobic offence, the our staff. The School will work to create and uphold a
 offensive targeting of disability, and cyber safe school environment, in which our pupils feel safe
incidents, is unacceptable. and secure, are encouraged to talk, and are listened to.
Cyber bullying is a moderately new form We will ensure that all pupils know there is always an
of bullying which includes bullying by adult in the School whom they can approach if they are
means of social media, mobile phone, text worried or in difficulty. Our curriculum provides
message, photographs and email. opportunities to equip children with required skills to
remain safe from harm and to know to how and from
whom they can get help.
5. Objectives: The research examines different forms of violence, (NN). Research Study on
harassment and bullying in schools from a gender Violence, Harassment
1. To emphasise the need and duty to perspective and seeks to identify any emerging trends, and Bullying in Schools
fosterfairness and respect amongst the circumstances, types and causes of violence, A qualitative perspective.
school community. harassment and bullying in schools. The study seeks to Retrieved from
2. To use informal education methods in establish a more contemporaneous view of the patterns http://victimsupport.org.mt/w
orderto accustom children to diversity and processes of such forms of violence in schools in p-
from a young age. Malta and Gozo. content/uploads/2016/04/Rep
3. More training on what bullying really ort-Violence-Schools.pdf
is forteachers and students alike to
enable a common understanding.
4. A focus on highlighting positive
aspects of diversity and on
commonalities of diverse groups.
5. Making cultural mediators available in
schools.
6. Education of students about the short
and long term impact of bullying.
7. Educating teachers and students alike
about children’s rights and about
respecting the rights of others.
8. Using more creative methods to engage
parents in school life.
9. Using more creative methods to
encourage and enable
parents to attend parental skills courses.