Bullying: Teachers’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-8623.2014.2.12683Keywords:
Bullying, school violence, interaction teacher-student, aggressiveness, adolescence.Abstract
This study’s objective was to investigate whether 6th grade teachers knew, identified and how they intervened in bullying situations occurring in classrooms. Participants were six teachers and the data were obtained through the focus group technique in 2010. Content analysis was used to treat the collected material. The results revealed that the teachers did not have sufficient knowledge concerning the main characteristics of this phenomenon, nor realized how serious it is. Their interventions were mostly occasional and limited to the events they identified and after their occurrence. The teachers reported not being sufficiently prepared to identify and deal with students’ aggressive behavior. Hence, we infer that teacher training is an important aspect that should be addressed in bullying prevention and intervention programs.Downloads
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