Speaker
Description
Dagmar Strohmeier is Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Linz in Austria and Professor II at the University of Stavanger, Stavanger in Norway. She studies peer relations in children and youth with a cross-cultural and cross-national perspective and has a special focus on immigrant youth.
She has developed, implemented and evaluated a program to foster social and intercultural competences in schools (ViSC program) that has been implemented in Austria, Cyprus, Romania, Turkey and Kosovo.
In this presentation, she will discuss how bullying by teachers could be distinguished from related phenomena. She will propose arguments how bullying by teachers could be related to peer bullying and summarize existing evidence.
Further she will discuss how bias-based bullying by teachers might harm the positive development of immigrant youth and present available evidence.
Finally she will finish with suggestions on how the bullying by teachers could be integrated in schoolwide anti-bullying efforts.
