Educators’ perspectives on risk factors for learner-on-learner bullying

Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship

 
 
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Title Educators’ perspectives on risk factors for learner-on-learner bullying
 
Creator de Wet, Corene
 
Subject Education; Psychology Bullying; Causes of bullying; Education; Preventive factors
Description Educators are the key role-players in the successful development and implementation of most anti-bullying programmes and/or intervention strategies. This article sets out to report on findings from a qualitative study on educators’ perspectives of the risk factors for learner-on-learner bullying. Educators who were furthering their studies at the University of the Free State, South Africa, were invited to take part in the study on different types of bullying. This article focuses on the narratives of 91 participants who described the incidence of learner-on-learner bullying. The study uses a four-level, social-ecological model as the theoretical framework. Individual, family, institutional and societal risk factors for bullying were identified by means of a qualitative content analysis. It is suggested in the article that although risk-focused prevention strategies may lead to a reduction in bullying, prevention strategies should not target only these (negative) factors, but try to promote protective factors on all four social-ecological levels.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor None
Date 2013-09-23
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Qualitative content analysis; open-ended questions
Format text/html application/octet-stream text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/koers.v78i3.455
 
Source Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship/Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap; Vol 78, No 3 (2013); 9 pages 2304-8557 0023-270X
 
Language eng
 
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https://journals.koers.aosis.co.za/index.php/koers/article/view/455/2285 https://journals.koers.aosis.co.za/index.php/koers/article/view/455/2286 https://journals.koers.aosis.co.za/index.php/koers/article/view/455/2287 https://journals.koers.aosis.co.za/index.php/koers/article/view/455/2284
 
Coverage South Africa — educators; male and female; multi-ethnic; multi-racial
Rights Copyright (c) 2013 Corene de Wet https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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