Speaker
Description
Article 12 of the Convention on the Right of the Child (CRC) upholds children’s right to be heard and to express their views freely in all matters that affect them. They have the right to be listened to and taken seriously, they are entitled to give their opinion, and they have unique insights and information to offer in the efforts against bullying. Listening to childres voices, their experiences and reflections, is crucial for understanding the social processes of which they are a part when bullying processes are in motion and establish efficient
measures in kindergartens and schools.
The presentation will use results from two different research projects: “Dialogue-meetings as a preventing method against bullying in kindergarten” and “Dialogue and cooperation against bullying in school”. In this presentation data from individual interviews and focus group interviews with a total of 31 children, 5 year- olds, in 4 different kindergartens, focus-group interview in grade 1 and 6 and evaluation questionnaires from children in grade 8 in 6 different schools will be used in order to present childrens voices on bullying.
Findings: a) In kindergarten children describe bullying as doing or saying “something mean”. Exclusion from play is what all the children fear the most, b) In school is the feeling of being left out the main topic related to bullying, d) The fear and experiences that the adults will not believe them hinders them from speaking up in school.
Keywords
Childrens participation, kindergarten, school, measures,
| Please also indicate what kind of contribution it is: | Scientific |
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| Please indicate what type of scientific contribution it is | Quantitative method study |
