What to Do About (Cyber)bullying?
School Education Gateway, 25.2.2021
Stefanie Fächner, [email protected]
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Young people spend more time online due to Covid
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Rise in (Cyber)bullying during Covid
https://www.focus.de/familie/eltern/zwei-millionen-betroffene-studie-corona-verschlimmert-cybermobbing-unter-schuelern_id_12834732.html https://www.stompoutbullying.org/blog/Cyberbullying-During-COVID-19 https://www.verywellfamily.com/cyberbullying-increasing-during-global-pandemic-4845901 3 What to do about (cyber)bullying?
Let‘s talk numbers: attacks happen in most classrooms
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Lessons learned: prevention simply isn‘t enough
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Systemic intervention and prevention in schools
Contents • Background information on (cyber)bullying, specific characteristics of online bullying • Overview of different intervention methods • Systemic Conflict Management: Case evaluation, Measures and Goals, Emergency Instruction • Case studies • Pedagogical framework: Classroom leadership, encouragement of empathy and compassion, relationship culture etc. • Practical projects
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Bullying, cyber-bullying and (cyber)bullying
Online and offline bullying are usually intertwined
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Bullying in schools
Bullying “is repeated and systematic demeaning of other persons, which serves to fulfill needs of the person initiating it – particularly needs for power and status –, which evokes a positive response within the group, which cannot be brought to an end by the victim alone, and which alters the value framework of the group.” picture: pixabay
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Who becomes a victim?
Anyone can become a victim!
Three factors are significant: 1) Hooks 2) Ineffective Self-Defense 3) Imbalance of power / Lack of support
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Generational boundary helps bullying go undetected
If (cyber)bullying is undetected for a long time, dissocial behaviour will be manifested in the group and support for the victim decreases
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Create a framework of working together • ritualized communication spaces help young people to address their issues • Young people need to know about values and norms • Rules must be reviewed regularly • Sanctions are clear to all
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Who needs what?
Victim
• Compassion, Protection, Consulting, Coaching
Bully
• Opportunity to change behavior
Parents
• Reliable partners with know-how
School management
• Structured approach
Class lead / teacher
• Team support
Class / group
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Short instruction for emergencies
Offer a good Check self- Define your role Involve peer relationship and a endangerment and position counselors safe place
Check who should Contact the victim Documentation is Offer help be involved if help is refused key
Police? External Experts
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Pitfalls
1. Individual talk with the victim won‘t stop (cyber)bullying 2. Interventions by parents can make things worse 3. Promptly threatening to punish offenders 4. Lack of supervision after the intervention 5. Victim blaming can be a legitimation of violence 6. Urging the victim to defend himself 7. Expecting the class to solve the problem 8. „Discussing“ the problem with the class 9. Information briefings with a cognitive emphasis
15 Practical projects for the classroom
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Practical projects for the classroom
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Different roles in (cyber)bullying – and what about us?
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Exclusion, Insults, Threats – reflecting on the damages
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Consequences for the victims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMl1t7NtFmE 20 What to do about (cyber)bullying?
Delete – Block – Report: technical options to stop bullying
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Avoiding Harm in the Class Chat
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Digital Self-Assertion and Civil Courage on the Net
Stefan is invited by a classmate to be in an “anti-Michael group”. In the group, everyone disses Michael, and they share photos and videos that make Michael look like a fool.
Our solution to the case: ….
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Living Together on the Basis of Human Rights
24 A peer developed project
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Cyber-Bullying First-Aid App
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Cyber-Bullying First-Aid App
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Time for questions
What‘s on your mind?
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