Cyber Bullying and Our Middle School Girls

Autor/inn/en	Stomfay-Stitz, Aline; Wheeler, Edyth
Titel	Cyber Bullying and Our Middle School Girls
Quelle	In: Childhood Education, 83 (2007) 5, S.308- (2 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-4056
Schlagwörter	School Personnel; Females; Peer Mediation; Internet; Parents; Middle School Students; Bullying; Computer Mediated Communication; Early Adolescents; Legal Responsibility + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulpersonal; Weibliches Geschlecht; Peer Group; Mediation; Eltern; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Mobbing; Computerkonferenz; Strafmündigkeit
Abstract	This column of Childhood Education focuses on middle school girls. Cyberbullying has emerged as a new, insidious, and harmful way of getting back at an individual girl who may be "different" or disliked for a physical or social trait. Cyberbullying has been described as "willful and repeated harm inflicted through the medium of electronic text" (Burgess-Proctor et al., 2006). It is carried out through a wide variety of methods, using cell phones, E-mail, and Internet instant messaging in such locations as MySpace and other Web-based sites. School personnel and parents have been largely uninformed about the seriousness of these threats and the damage to fragile, pre-teen egos. Fortunately, the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use has compiled a comprehensive guide to help with these problems. The guide describes and discusses problem areas and addresses such topics as "Liability Issues for a School" (Willard, 2005). This column proposes that an ongoing discussion should take place about how cyberbullying violates all the principles of the Peaceable School and Classroom, causing great emotional damage. Consequences for incidents of cyberbullying should be set and acted on by the school administrators. At an appropriate time, a Peer Mediation model should be initiated to settle the more difficult student conflicts. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10