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- Title
Educators' perspectives on risk factors for learner-onlearner bullying.
- Authors
de Wet, Corene
- Abstract
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-onlearner 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 learneron- 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.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; SCHOOL bullying; SCHOOL environment; TEACHER-student relationships; TEACHING methods; EDUCATION
- Publication
Koers: Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2013, Vol 78, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0023-270X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4102/koers.v78i3.455