| Summary: | 碩士 === 南華大學 === 國際暨大陸事務學系公共政策研究碩士班 === 100 === The purpose of this study is to understand and to analyze the circumstances of elementary school bullying and bullied students. The researchers used the semi-structured interview approach to survey ten teachers and recorded the content. A total of 386 students were surveyed using the questionnaire approach, while another 30 students were interviewed face to face. Majority students from the questionnaire survey and the face-to-face interview were from the classes of the ten interviewed teachers. The main findings are the following:
1. Commonly occurred types of elementary school bullying are verbal bullying, relational bullying, and physical bullying.
2. Bullying cases have been poorly reported mainly due to unclear definition of bullying, considering bullying as disgraceful, a too complicated bullying reporting system with too many limitations, parents lack of understanding or cooperation, and a lack of protection for teachers. As a result, not all the bullying cases were reported.
3. Campus bullying exists worldwide. The trend is spreading and can not be eliminated.
4. The campus security report center of each public elementary school has set a bullying reporting system that clearly defines how bullying should be handled and reported in order to make the notification and processing of campus bullying cases more effective. On the other hand, some difficulties can still be found, such as a blurry definition of bullying behavior, uncertainty about counseling procedure, and possibilities of misusing or abusing the attention on bullying.
5. Effective ways for preventing elementary schools from underreporting bullying cases are 1) To hire full-time professional counseling teachers; 2) To help parents and teachers acquire a correct concept of "early detection and early treatment”; 3) To increase the number of anti-bullying hotlines and mailboxes; 4) To strengthen anti-bullying education, character education and legal education; and 5) To replace punishment by rewards and correction.
Based on the findings, the authors hope that the education authorities can put more emphasis on bullying reporting and help families, schools, and communities obtain correct concepts about bullying reporting so bullying can be eliminated from schools while students can have a normal and peaceful environment. That is also the wish of all educators.
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