CYBERBULLYING IN ADOLESCENCE: INVESTIGATION AND INTERVENTION IN SIX

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

POLISH INTERVENTION

Schools ` needs analysis – meetings with headmasters and teachers which aim was to recognise special school needs and specificity of school experience regarding cyberbullyin issue

Łódź, big town, about 220 students

Koluszki, small city, about 350 students

Winna Góra, village, about 40 students

Awareness raising - Workshops for parents about cyberbullying phenomenon, prevention and intervention issues

Awareness raising - Workshops for teachers about cyberbullying phenomenon, prevention and intervention issues which can be developed in school

TRAINING PROGRAM FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS

Knowledge based: fresh data on representative sample of adolescents (N=2143) and teachers (N=600)

Prevention of „moral panic” and simplified picture of media usage among youth

Basic knowledge on new media and their role in social live and developement of young people (Living and Learning with New Media, 2008; Pew American Internet Study) – also special needs students

Computer mediated communication Different kinds ofelectronic aggression – not only

cyberbullying, e.g. Aggression against the vulnerable

Cyberbullying versus Face-to-face bullying – prevalance, consequences

Workshops with the Society of Anticyberbullying – SofA Club

English classes prepared for students about: new media, characteristics of online communication specificity of cyberspace

Participation in the conference under the „Safer Internet Day”

Awareness raising - Cyberbullying and new media knowledge base for parents, teachers and students Links to the cyberbullying websites Books Journals

Activities for students according to the positive ICT usage – set up a blog

Source: http://www.trickup6.blogspot.com/