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- Title
Bullying among Roma Children of a Cluj Metropolitan Area School.
- Authors
Zaharia, Lida‑Elena; Faludi, Cristina
- Abstract
Bullying occurs mostly in schools, having destructive psychologically and physically long‑term effects. This study has a research and psycho‑social intervention approach. The purpose of the research was to investigate whether Roma children were more exposed to bullying situations in school than Romanian children. The research had a pre‑intervention component, designed to inform the intervention, and a post‑intervention component, serving an assessment purpose. This study was conducted in a primary classroom of a secondary school from Cluj metropolitan area, where 23% of the school population were Roma pupils. Individual semi‑structured interviews were conducted with 8 pupils and 7 parents of Roma and Romanian ethnicity, and with 3 teachers during May‑June 2022. Thematic analysis was used to investigate the qualitative data. A sociogram explored the attraction and rejection relationships between Roma and Romanian classmates. Following the research, a psycho‑educational group was conducted with the pupils of the investigated classroom. The Paired‑samples t Test was applied to investigate whether pupils improved their level of knowledge about bullying at the end of intervention. The findings showed that school was not a discriminatory bullying environment based on ethnicity. Physical and verbal forms of bullying prevailed in school. A significantly higher level of knowledge about bullying was evidenced at the end of the intervention. The group leader informed parents about bullying and conceived a step‑by‑step intervention plan with the teacher to suppress bullying between pupils. Further directions of research and intervention to address bullying are exposed in the last section of the study.
- Subjects
ROMANIA; CLUJ (Romania : Judet); SCHOOL bullying; METROPOLITAN areas; BULLYING; THEMATIC analysis; SEMI-structured interviews
- Publication
Social Work Review / Revista de Asistenta Sociala, 2022, Issue 3, p29
- ISSN
1583-0608
- Publication type
Article