Browsing by Subject "bullying"

Aims. Purpose of this study was investigate how home economy teachers see bullying in their work and what kind of preparedness they have. Earlier studies have shown that bullying in school is quite common. Despite the fact that bullying has been widely noticed in media, there haven't find explicit ways to intervene. Bullying in home economics classroom haven't been studied before. Home economics as a school subject differs from other theoretical subjects and that is the reason why ways of bullying might be different. In this study we tried to find out what kinds of bullying exist in home economics classroom, how teachers intervene it and what kind of preparedness teachers experience they have. Bullying phenomenon is very diverse so study's framework consist of perceiving bullying phenomena, describing nature of home economics and exposing teacher's preparedness. Methods. The material of study was collected with nine open questions questionnaire. There were also few background questions. Questionnaires were send digitally to home economics teachers who were teaching in high schools and belong in mailing list of Home economics union, Facebook group called Home economics teachers or Home economics and those who's e-mail address were find from websites of large cities Finnish speaking schools. 44 answers were received and 6 of them by mail. Work experience of answerers varies from less than a year to 34 years. Material were analysed using content analysis. Results and conclusions. In this study noticed that there were specific features of bullying in home economics classroom. For example pupils free moving, plenty of equipment, opportunity to danger situations, rush and the fact that there happens so much at the same time in a classroom. Teachers feel that their preparedness were mainly good. Young teachers were most unhappy about their preparedness. Education doesn't give enough preparedness to intervene bullying, but working experience and own children does. Teachers intervene bullying by discussion with bully, victim and their parents. When needed also help of other agents and punishments.