Bullying and parents

TY - ENCYC

T1 - Bullying and parents

AU - Søndergaard, Dorte Marie

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - Bullying is an extreme form of social exclusion that affects a significant number of children in schools and other childhood institutions. The definition of bullying is a matter of debate among researchers. Some researchers emphasize aggressive contra vulnerable individual personality traits as a basic premise for the emergence of bullying behavior. Others conceptualize bullying as an effect of dysfunctional social mechanisms in groups.In line with such diverse understandings of how to define and understand bullying, researchers also discuss the part played by parents in children’s bullying practices. Researchers who understand bullying as an effect of deficits in individual children tend to explain such deficits as a consequence of inadequate upbringing. Researchers who explain bullying behavior as an effect of dysfunctional social patterns in groups of children (and adults), meanwhile, tend to focus on the ways in which parents interact with each other and with school professionals as one of a number of aspects involved in the processes and outcomes of the school environment as a whole. This entry looks at the conseqences of such approaches for the encounter between school and parents.

AB - Bullying is an extreme form of social exclusion that affects a significant number of children in schools and other childhood institutions. The definition of bullying is a matter of debate among researchers. Some researchers emphasize aggressive contra vulnerable individual personality traits as a basic premise for the emergence of bullying behavior. Others conceptualize bullying as an effect of dysfunctional social mechanisms in groups.In line with such diverse understandings of how to define and understand bullying, researchers also discuss the part played by parents in children’s bullying practices. Researchers who understand bullying as an effect of deficits in individual children tend to explain such deficits as a consequence of inadequate upbringing. Researchers who explain bullying behavior as an effect of dysfunctional social patterns in groups of children (and adults), meanwhile, tend to focus on the ways in which parents interact with each other and with school professionals as one of a number of aspects involved in the processes and outcomes of the school environment as a whole. This entry looks at the conseqences of such approaches for the encounter between school and parents.

KW - Bullying in school

KW - Bullying and parents

KW - Mobning

KW - Grundskole

KW - Forældre/Forældresamarbejde

KW - Skole-hjem-samarbejde

KW - Bullying

KW - Bullying in school

KW - Bullying and children

KW - bullying and parents

M3 - Encyclopedia entry

SN - 978-1-4739-4292-9

VL - 1

SP - 167

EP - 169

BT - The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies

A2 - Cook, Daniel Thomas

PB - SAGE Publications

CY - Thousand Oaks, California

ER -