Citation

Maedo S. Okinawa Int. Univ. J. Soc. Welf. Psychol. 2003; 1(1): 115-172.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Okinawa International University)

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Abstract

This is a survey on the ideas of solutions to bullying among children provided by university students in secondary educational training course. As the basis of the study, the students were provided three different bullying cases. One is the bullying by violence, another is bullying in words, and the last is the exclusion from classmates. The core study of this survey is the comparison of ideas of solutions to those three patterns of bullying cases. Additionally they were questioned for assumable solutions, which they would expect if they were to take part in the bullying cases. The roles assumed are: a homeroom teacher, a close friend of the bullied person, a classmate, parents, and a bullied child. As the result of the survey, it became clear that the solutions which the university students would expect differ by patterns of bullying cases and also by their assumed roles in the bullying. On the bullying by violence, when they are to act as a homeroom teacher, they tend to select the solutions which put emphasis on involvement with the child who is bullied. On the contrary, in the cases of bullying in words and exclusion from classmates, when they are to act as a homeroom teacher, they tend to select the solutions which require commitment with children who are actually bullying other children. When they are to act as a bullied child, they tend to select the solutions with the selfeffort by the bullied child. When they are to act as a close friend of the bullied child, or a classmate, responses such as ignoring, inactive observation from a distance, or contrarily, proactive participation in the bullying were suggested.