| Abstract [eng] |
The final Master work is very relevant, because the problem of bullying in Lithuanian schools appears to be very burning, the number and prevalence of bullied and bullying students in Lithuanian schools is larger than in other European. Novelty – there are many scientific works of bullying at school, but there are not enough works comparing prevalence and prevention of bullying in different countries. Therefore, in my work I try to identify and analyse expression, prevalence and prevention of byllying at schools in two countries - Šiauliai and Dublin. The problem of the work – What are the similarities and differences of expression, prevalence and prevention of bullying at schools? What could influence the differences? The goal of the research – to identify and compare the expression, prevalence and prevention of byllying at school among students of 7-8 forms. The object of the research – expression, prevalence and prevention of students‘ bullying at schools. The analysis of scientific literature and questionnaire methods were applied in the work, as well as the software SPSS (version 17) for storing the gathered statistic data. The illustrations of the work are provided applying Windows Microsoft Exel software. The research was completed in March-April, 2011. Students of 7-8 forms and teachers were questioned. The analysis of scientific literature relealed the prevailing forms, reasons, results and prevalence of bullying at schools in Lithuania and other countries, and the aspects of prevention of bullying. The type of quantitative descriptive reasearch was applied to reach the goal of the work. The tool of quantitative descriptive reasearch is the questionnaire to identify the forms, size, students‘ and teachers attitude towards the prevention of bullying at schools. The gathered data results from different schools in two countries were analysed and compared. The research states: 1. The direct verbal forms exist at schools in both countries. Mostly they are used in hallways and classrooms; 2. Most students in both countries feel safe. They neither bully or are bullied at school; 3. Students and teachers in both countries believe that bullying can be reduced by promotion of communication among students, class meetings, compiling the rules, definition and promotion of friendly and positive mode of behavior, analysing the cases of bullying applying the attitude of non-accusation; 4. Teachers in both countries administer prevention of bullying individually, or at the school and class level. According to the results of the research the recommendations for bullying prevention were provided. |
