Qualitative Article Review

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Topical Reference List

Cassandra Howery

EDU 518 Understanding Educational Research and Assessment

Liberty University

January 31, 2019

Abstract

Bullying has been a daily topic of concern across the whole world. Childhood bullying is schools have been a worldwide delinquent that progress to be a serious and an international disaster that threats the physical and emotional health of children and adolescents. There are numerous scholarly peer-reviewed articles that tend to discuss how bullying has affected the education of children. The articles have also analyzed the frequency, the common physiognomies of bullies and the victims of bullying acts. The major sections highlighted in the articles include worth of bullying preclusion programs that can support health care facilitators to evaluate band facilitate intrusions to children as well as adolescents affected by bullying (Hymel & Swearer, 2015).

Introduction

Events and occurrences of vehemence and belligerence in schools are a common scene across the world. It has been a common expansion in the vulnerability of the school children in the bullying acts. This has called the attention of the researchers such as scientists, educators as well as policy makers. Such an outline entails a definite meaning of bullying which vary from other forms of discrimination. The power imbalance generally appears between perpetrators (Hymel & Swearer, 2015). Generally, bullying may take various forms of discriminative actions. Such include confrontation, teasing as well as humiliation to a more indirect method of victimization such as spread of rumors or exclusions from the peer group as well as social marginalization of the victim.

Summary of the General Themes

The articles generally discuss various themes relating to bullying actions. The articles discuss the prevalence of bullying incidents across the world. From an overview look of the articles, the prevalence of bullying depends on the gender as well as the age of the respective individuals. For instance, the bullying rates in the United States are 13% while in England was 24% as well as 8% in Germany (Smith & Whitley, 2013). From the articles, it is vivid that the prevalence of the bullying acts is directly proportional to the age group as dictated in the articles. In addition, the research has proven that the male gender has become more affected by the bullying acts. Nevertheless, more female prevalence in bullying has also been noted in more sections in American, Asian and African.

Other thematic concerns addressed in the articles include the extent in which the school bullying have impacted the student’s academic performance. The articles have proven a negative impact of bullying in the academic performance. Nevertheless, the extent has been regressed by the role played by the teachers in the bullying actions (Williams, 2013). Teachers have intense the bullying actions and other discriminative manners at school such as racism and other forms of oppression. This has been approved by the articles to have been affected their overall academic performance.

How Does Bullying Affect a Student’s Education

From the article, it is evident that the impact of bullying has extended far beyond the academic scope. It is clear that the students who are being bullied at schools experience physical symptoms such as stomach pains, headaches as well as trouble sleeping. Such effects are normally accompanied by anxiety while attending their academic sessions. This particular loss of academic interest results to poor performance in academics by the affected students. In addition, the students have exhibited a low confidence tone which has been proven to as a result of being bullied. They therefore experience a fatal series of depressions, suicidal thoughts as well as even violent outbreaks (Kate, 2018).

Not only the students who are bullied are affected by bullying but also those students who bully others are also affected as well. The recent conducted research has shown that students who practically and literally bully other usually result to engaging in violent and aggressive behaviors which may have affect their behavioral patterns. Most of them even end up being criminals and gangsters who may indirectly affect the concerned family or even the entire society at large. They steal or even vandalize property, smoke, drink and even the students reporting poor grades in their academic performance; the long-term effect here being committing serious crimes later in their lives (Cornell & Limbers, 2015). Some even become addicted hence finding it more difficult to cease their bullying behaviors while at school and may even extend to the members of the society who become victims of bullying as well.

How Teachers Handle Bullying Actions in the Classroom

Teacher’s description of bullying appears contrasting. Nevertheless, it entails a typical belief which include the fact that bullying actions are generally meant to hurt the oppressed as well as gaining some sense of power from the bullying acts. The intervention of teachers to stop the acts of bullying has been moderate. Nevertheless, their efforts towards fighting or campaigning against the bullying acts have proven being minimal. From the study conducted by the researchers, 18% of the teachers across the world are the only ones who have made some critical efforts towards stopping bullying acts. This literally and practically means that 82% of the teachers pay little or no attention towards the bullying behaviors being conducted in their schools. 25% of these teachers only report the bullying situations when they become intense (Katherine, 2018).

Nevertheless, teacher’s intervention on bullying cannot also be deemed to be minimal. Off late, numerous teachers have adopted the idea that bullying behaviors have greatly impacted the academic performance. This means that more teachers have agreed to play an integral role in ceasing the bullying behaviors at schools. However, some of the teachers have a belief that there is need to utilize every chance they are given hence paying a deemed attention to bullying behaviors. From the student point of view, the teacher cannot possibly away step in since the teacher might be assisting some of the bullying students in class with an intent that they are indeed helping the students (Sherri, 2018). In addition, a big number of the teachers assume that when the bullying actions occur, they happen in their absence in their respective classes and the students may fear providing the evidence since the bullying students may turn up on them. In my personal view, the intervention of the teachers will depend on the authoritarian teachers and the passive teachers.

Are Students Who Have Been Being Bullied Given the Coping Skills

Some of the campaigns held against the bullying actions have made attempt to provide some of the coping skills. Some of the coping skills taught include how to identify bullying behaviors and report them immediately. Critically, some of the students who undergo extreme bullying acts are the new students who have been enrolled in the respective schools. There is need to identify some of the signs of bullying (Domino, 2018). There is need for the students to identify such acts in the school and walk away from them.

Besides, various efforts have been made to see to it that the students have avoided any crossover with the bullying acts in the school. For instance, students should unite together in identifying the bullying students in the school compound. Unity is strength. When the students have been united, they are able to fight against the bullying students at school hence ceasing the bullying and other discriminative behaviors at school. In addition, the students should use the buddy system and avoid bullying actions (Domino, 2018). In addition, there is need to hold the anger and avoid vengeful acts while at school. Besides, the students should act brave, walk away as well as ignore the bully in school. They should besides tell any adult they see within the school or even in the society for additional adult.

Whether the Child Report the Incident to the Teacher

From the research conducted, 72% of the children in schools normally fear to report the bullying actions in fear on increased bullying from the bullying students. The research has also shown that parents are the ones who normally report the bullying behaviors when the bullying is physical. Nevertheless, 28% of the students gather courage to go and report the incident to the respective authorities. The school administration should curb the situation and help the students talk out about being bullied. They should hold session that will encourage and motivate the students to speak up about their situations of being bullied. Most of the bullying students use their power to condemn, manipulate as well as ridicule students. Cyberbullying is bullying which takes place over digital devices such as cell phones, computers as well as tablets (Lucy, 2016). Cyber bullying normally occurs with the prevalence of social media as well as digital forums, comments, photos, posts as well as content being shared by individuals which can at times be viewed by strangers as well as other acquaintances. Cyberbullying can be persistent, permanent as well as hard to notice.

References

Barrington, K. (2018, May 1). How Does Bullying Affect a Student's Academic Performance? Retrieved January 31, 2019, from https://www.publicschoolreview.com/blog/how-does-bullying-affect-a-students-academic-performance

Betts, L. R. (2016). Cyberbullying: Approaches, consequences and interventions. Springer. pp.25-28

Cornell, D., & Limber, S. P. (2015). Law and policy on the concept of bullying at school. American Psychologist, 70(4), 333-343. doi:10.1037/a0038558.

Domino, M. (2013). Measuring the Impact of an Alternative Approach to School Bullying. Journal of School Health, 83(6), 430-437. doi:10.1111/josh.12047

Gleason, K. (2011). How teachers deal with bullying: best practices for identifying and dealing with bullying behaviors among high school students. New York: Springer Publishing Company, pp. 89.

Gordon, S. (2018, June 30). 10 Ways to Handle a Bullying Teacher. Retrieved January 31, 2019, from https://www.verywellfamily.com/ways-to-respond-to-teacher-who-bullies-460778

Hymel, S., & Swearer, S. M. (2015). Four decades of research on school bullying: An introduction. American Psychologist, 70(4), 293-299.http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0038928