The Future of Education

Edition 15

Accepted Abstracts

Preventing Cyberbullying: Students’ Experiences and Needs

Armanda Matos, University of Coimbra (Portugal)

Yi Wang, University of Manchester (United Kingdom)

Bahri Turunç, AFYON ministry of education (Turkey)

Adnan Gulozer, Yegitek (Turkey)

Abstract

Information and communication technologies continuously offer new opportunities, forms and contexts for communication, which are widely used by children and young people for social purposes. Along with many benefits that social media may have, they are also associated with some risks that nowadays constitute a challenge for schools, teachers and parents. Among those risks is the phenomenon of cyberbullying, which is causing widespread social concern, because of its potential harmful consequences on children and young people health and well-being.

The project BECYBERSAFE - Beat Cyberbullying, Embrace Safer Cyberspace, co-funded by ERASMUS+ / Strategic Partnerships (Ref. 2014-1-TR01-KA200-013354) of the European Commission, aims to facilitate adolescents, parents, teachers, and other educators with knowledge about the safe use of social media and to provide them guidelines on how to prevent and tackle cyberbullying.

The project is being developed between December 2014 and November 2016, involves partners from Cyprus, Czech Republic, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey (Coordinator), and United Kingdom, and is focused on developing several educational and training resources targeting educators and young people.

These resources will be built based on a research process that involved a needs assessment conducted with a sample of students aged 9-14 years old across partner countries, who were asked to complete a self-response questionnaire assessing their experiences of cyberbullying, their main needs in terms of prevention, and their opinion about what should be done to prevent/tackle cyberbullying. In this communication, we present a short overview of the project and describe the initial findings of the research phase, giving particular attention to the comparative aspects of students’ experiences and perceptions. Implications for prevention and intervention will be also discussed.

 

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