Bullying in the Educational School System (Coursework Sample)

Bullying in School Educational Systems
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INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study
Parents are considered to be the original models in the family and are responsible for shaping original characteristics of a being. Parents have been using different approaches to teaching the best and recognized norms to their children. During the modeling process, some parents are known to use aggressive and harsh approach as a way of correcting and disciplining their children. The consequences here are that the kid is likely to develop a negative attachment to parents and the people around and in the process; a child develops an aggressive characteristic. Positive relationship with parents attracts more attention and association to the manner in which a child learns or relate to others. Therefore, the family background is the main source of individual’s characteristics such as the social nature of the individual development.
Opinions have been raised on how bullying is developed only to find that it develops during childhood. For example, a child would intentionally provoke the other in a painful and repeated manner only to cause distress to the other kid and finally resulting in the development of anger at different stages of their social development. As a result, the experience in aggressive behavior makes the child harass the younger ones or those they find not appealing to them.
Individual’s development is a combination of different processes, stages, and forms that continues to change differently during the lifespan. Similarly, bullying takes many forms that are known to develop and change accordingly to the age, sex, social background, and religion. The common form or bullying is conducted verbally and physically.
Research Goals
The importance of this study is to explore the popularity and the nature of bullying in the current educational system while trying to analyze the factors leading to the problem and what policies are being used to solve the issue.
Importance and selection into the Study
The researcher considers the study on bullying because it contains a variety of sources of information is needed to not only give statistical data analysis but also the advantage of the researcher having a background on various school systems. Acknowledges that the purpose of research is to explore, describe, understand, and explain events, while these events must be provided through facts. These facts are provided in various shapes, amongst others through artifacts and existing documents. Methods of collecting data will involve indirect observation and reanalyzing data that was gathered for developing other related projects on the school system. The study further includes supportive information based on authorized internet sources, which include sites like online journals, Google Books, and others. This finding also adds relevance to the basis of this study as the findings of this paper are targeted to support the theoretical concepts discussed and probably improve them or create new ones.
Problem Definition and Analysis
This study will help in answering questions related to the objectives of the study such as, what are the key factors that contribute to bullying. What is the nature of bullying amongst students? What are the consequences related to bullying? In addition, what approach will best curb the vice amongst the students? Having understood the situation, the researcher pointed out the major elements that contribute to the vice in schools such as the social characteristics, attitudes and the consequences in relation to individuals influence to bullying. These problems are further discussed below as follow;
Procedure
This study is based on facts gathered from relevant educational sources including public schools websites, information from the concerned Ministry and educational journal concerning bullying in schools. For example, the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs in United States will provide the much-needed information that contributes to the development and analysis of the study. The study further assumes to be no major difference between sex, age and student classes in relation to how bullying is conducted.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Social Characteristics
Bullying has remained to be an adverse social problem in school where the powerless and less-fortunate individuals find themselves under frequent attacks from individuals, peers groups or a senior member. Bullying occurs at any of the academic levels, but most cases are reported amongst the youths. The victim usually falls under a gang of individuals with hidden antisocial behaviors from their school seniors where attackers apply fearful approaches that the victim is forced to remain silent on the situation. According to (Aldridge & Goldman, 2007), attackers or the individual's attacker plays a different role in the process during the bullying process in much influenced by personal characteristics such as attitudes, emotions and stimulus levels. The bully or the group have other environmental characteristics that shapes their state in becoming bullies to other students. They include classroom customs, family background, financial situations, discipline, schools management policies, class performance, and esteem.
Bullying remains a subtype of an old social problem in schools, and its study helps in understanding the key factors resulting in the vice and the interventions to be considered in addressing the issue. In some school educational systems, methods have been put in-place to control the problem but some students remain insecure especially when a student fall a target of the situation. Bullying is also a worldwide and negative social school phenomenon where adults too have a story to narrate regarding the situation they went through while others have stories to tell on how they conducted the vice. . After tremendous enforcement of school policies, bullying cases have only changed its course and is currently carried out in non-violence or damaging approach, but instead it is carried out in a manner where students would feel rejected, humiliated and discriminated (Klein, 2012).
Students Attitudes towards Bullying
The manner in which a student feel about -themselves and towards other‘s especially the less fortunate student usually complex. Their feelings comprise of attitudes such as loneliness, adjusting to new environments, low self-esteem, discriminations, bias, and unhappiness. These negative attitudes have impacts on how students socialize or communicate to peers and seniors administration (Meyer-Adams & Conner, 2008). Within the same context, it is observed that either administration have an important role that hinders or pass laws that mare essential to students norms. When the administration is capable of accommodating and implementing better policies, communication channels and suitable learning environments for implementation the goals of students, the better the students are able to achieve improved academic performance and career goals with ease.
Finally, bullied students assume themselves according to the degree of the bad things that are being done on them and also according to the availability of "supportive environments’" that can allow them to cope with other’s vices. There are likely to inherit negative feelings towards themselves especially when they meet with a person full of prejudice and hence adopting different feeling about their personal self-identity such as confidence and self-identity. The negative perceptions of bullied students are the common cause for the student to lower the communication levels, and, therefore, making it hard for them to communicate openly with school’s administration, peer, and parents.
Effect of Bullying in Schools
Bullying affects the education sector as people suffer psychologically or physically and find it hard to cope with the schools life. It may lead to feelings of depression; self-harm, stress and hatred towards someone as the victim try to get away from the situation (Goodley and Lawthom, 2010). This has led to numerous dropouts of students with some of them acquiring habits of drug abuse as they try to cope with situations. The parents and teachers in most cases are unaware of the situations affecting their students especially when victims are threatened with consequences they can experience a result of reporting the situation.
Importance of the Study to the Research Work
Research and data gathering on information regarding bullying will assist the researcher on identifying students social life in schools and manner in which bullying occur and also identifying the methods of handling or eliminating the vice from the school’s stakeholders. This study is important where the researcher is able to point out the foundation of the research topic and also to analyze the factors that result to the development of the vice amongst students. Information gathered can be categorized into manner in which it occur and the facts relating to the study. It included the following information’s;
Forms and Reasons into Bullying
Studies have included that bullying result when individual victims- willingly or unwillingly- allow others to take control of their affairs, while using personals and social characteristics...