BULLYING
3º Wegener Pablo Castillo García & Luis Martínez Iáñez
Table of Contents 1.Definition of Bullying
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2.Types of Bullying
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3.Examples and real situations
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4.Spanish Government
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5.Possible Solutions
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6.Possible Projects
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7.Personal Conclusion
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8. Bibliography Page 11
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Definition of Bullying Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behaviour among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behaviour is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious lasting problems.
Bullying
In order to be considered bullying, the behaviour must be aggressive and include: •
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An Imbalance of Power: Kids who bully use their power—such as physical strength, access to embarrassing information, or popularity—to control or harm others. Power imbalances can change over time and in different situations, even if they involve the same people. Repetition: Bullying behaviours happen more than once or have the potential to happen more than once.
Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumours, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.
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Types of Bullying There are three main types of bullying:
Verbal bullying: is saying or writing means things. Includes: o o o o o
Teasing: word is usually used by people who study peer interactions. Name-calling: making up silly nicknames for each. Inappropriate sexual comments. Taunting: method in hand-to-hand combat. Threatening to cause harm.
Social bullying: sometimes referred to as relational bullying, involves hurting someone’s reputation or relationships. Social bullying includes: o o o o
Leaving someone out on purpose. Telling other children not to be friends with someone. Spreading rumors about someone. Embarrassing someone in public.
Physical bullying: involves hurting a person’s body or possessions. Physical bullying includes: o o o o o
Hitting/kicking/pinching. Spitting. Tripping/pushing. Taking or breaking someone’s things. Making mean or rude hand gestures.
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Examples and real Situations One case of bullying in Spain is the Jokin´s one who committed suicide in San Sebastian:
Jokin began to be a victim of bullying in his school towards the end of 2003 when he was unable to control an attack of diarrhea in the classroom, to the amusement of his schoolmates. He became a joke figure and then the constant humiliation turned into violence and continued throughout the school year. During a school trip, Jokin and his schoolmates were found smoking a joint, and his friends accused Jokin of telling tales, and the violence got worse. On the first day back at school, 13th September 2004, Jokin arrived to his classroom to find the walls and desks covered with toilet paper and were beaten up. His teacher made Jokin clean up the mess. Two days, and several beating-ups, later, Jokin didn't turn up at his school and his tutor contacted his parents who were unaware of the bullying their son was suffering. The parents and school agreed that Jokin would return to school on 21st September, armed with a mobile telephone so that he could ring them if he got bullied again. On 20th September Jokin wrote a message on an Internet forum site: “Free oh free. My eyes will go on even though my feet will stop". In the early hours of 21st, Jokin committed suicide. The autopsy performed on his body showed clear signs of the violence he had been subject to the previous week, and the eight teenagers whose trial begins in San Sebastian today were put on immediate suspension by the school.
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The government has tried to stop bullying several times, but nowadays a lot of children suffer bullying. The principal solutions that the government used are: • Several punishments to bullies.
• Improve the vigilance in schools.
• Teach teachers what to do in these special cases.
• The government has services to help people who suffer bully.
The government has many different solutions, but these are the ones who work. The major problem for the government is that it´s impossible to stop an action that made many people, but the intervention of the government is appreciated.
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Possible Solutions Bullying leaves so many parents, teachers, and children wondering how to stop bullying. Luckily there are wide assortments of options available to those who truly want to put an end to aggressive and hurtful behaviours.
What Can You Do? Start the talk now! So start talking to your child about bullying before it ever happens. Tell your child you are always available and recognize it is a growing problem. You want your child to come to you and not suffer in silence.
Stop rescuing. Children need practice to speak up and be assertive so when the moment comes that they do need to stand up to a bully, they can. Always rescuing can create the conditions under which a child can become a victim.
Avoid
areas where bullies prey. Bullying usually happens in unsupervised adult areas such as hallways, stairwells, playgrounds, lockers, parks… Teach your child about “hot spots” (places most likely to be frequently by bullies), and then tell him to avoid those areas. Offer specific tips. Most kids can’t handle bullying on their own: they need your help, so provide a plan. For instance, if bullying is happening on the bus tell your child to sit behind the bus driver on the left side where the driver can see passengers in the mirror, ask an older kid to “watch out” for your child, or offer to pick your child up from school.
Teach assertiveness. Kids less likely to be picked on, use assertive posture. Stress to your child that he should stand tall and hold his head up to appear more confident and less vulnerable. Practice!
Stay calm and don’t react. Bullies love knowing they can push other kids’ buttons, so tell your child to try to not let his tormentor know he upset you. Page 7
Teach a firm voice. Stress to your child that if he needs to respond, simple direct commands work best delivered in a strong determined voice: “No”.
Get help if needed. Tell your child to walk towards other kids or an adult. Find a supportive companion. Kids who have even one friend to confide in can deal with bullying better than those on their own. Is there one kid your child can pair up with? Is there a teacher, nurse, or neighbour he can go to for support? You may need to go to the teacher and principal and advocate!
Don’t make promises. You may have to protect your child, so make no promises to keep things confidential. You may have to step in and advocate. Do so if ever your child’s emotional or physical safety is at stake.
What Can Teachers Do?
Children should be having a number of options available to them on how to stop bullying. This is because what works well for one child may not work for another. Some popular solutions that can be implemented by kids include: - Giving the bully a cold shoulder and showing no reaction or emotion. - Reporting the bully to an authority figure such as a teacher, or parent. - Avoid being in the presence of the bully. - Becoming involved in activities and making new friends in an effort to stop being isolated and to promote self esteem. - Confront the bully and inform them that their behaviour will no longer be tolerated. Page 8
Possible Projects In some parts of the world, they are already starting to protect people from bullying with some projects, some of them are:
PROJECT ROCKIT: is an interactive anti-bullying and youth leadership program that is run by young people for young people in school and university settings. They say they are not a one-off entertainment act. They strive to achieve positive, lasting change by empowering young people to tackle the issues that are important to them.
Project Anti-Bully (PAB): is a social network that is dedicated towards raising awareness of the prevalence of bullying and peer abuse in schools globally in ten different countries: USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, New Zealand, Philippines, and Australia. Project Anti-Bully helps to create intervention type programs that specify on educating and informing individuals about precautionary methods for web and school safety. PAB was founded by students, for students with the hopes of encouraging them to communicate with other individuals about their bullying experiences. Project Anti-Bully has an extensive research team located throughout the United and the Positive Psychology in Action conference
Project I am not scared: From this section it is possible to access to a review of good practices, available at national level in the nine European countries involved, addressing the bullying phenomenon. The good practices include: ongoing and past projects, educational initiatives, training courses to teachers, informative and awareness raising campaigns, etc. Each selected good practice has been reviewed and presented according to a common format. The reviews of the selected good practices are organized in the searchable database below. Please notice that the reviews were made in English and in the national languages.
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Conclusion In conclusion, bullying is a problem that harms some schools. Bullying is not only present in schools or out schools; we can find bullying on the Internet. It can become a big problem that can affect many people, especially students. They are already many projects created to stop it but, in my opinion, I think we need to create some more and all governments need to take the bullying as a problem very serious. Luis MartĂnez In my opinion bullying must be eradicated. It is very important to control it, because it affects people personal life. We have to improve our control over bullies. They make so much damage to people, that sometimes they can make them change school, city or in extreme cases to commit suicide. I think that bullying is a very serious problem and we have to stop it. Most of these people need someone or something that helps them to ride on, and it could be a simple thing like a law or someone to talk. Pablo Castillo
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Bibliography Sources: http://razchan.articlealley.com/how-to-stop-bullying--possible-solutions-for-parents-teachersand-children-1281997.html http://education.findlaw.com/student-conduct-and-discipline/bullying.html?DCMP=ADCEDU_GenBroadModifier-Bullying&HBX_PK=bullying+solutions http://articles.submityourarticle.com/how-to-stop-bullying-possible-solutions-for-parentsteachers-and-children-74456 http://www.pinkshirtday.ca/2010/03/23/10-solutions-to-bully-proof-kids/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying http://www.projectbully.com/ http://iamnotscared.pixel-online.org/database_bestpracties.php? part_id=13&str_search_langreview=&str_search=&par01=&par02=&par03=
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