Pupil Insights into School Bullying: A Cross-National Perspective between England and Japan
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Kanetsuna, Tomoyuki. 2004. Pupil Insights into School Bullying: A Cross-National Perspective between England and Japan. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London [Thesis]
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The research presented in this thesis focused on cross-national comparisons of secondary school pupils' understanding of and attitudes towards school bullying / ijime. In the first study, interviews with 121 12-15-year-old Japanese and English secondary school children were conducted to evaluate the depth and diversity of children's understanding of the nature of bullying / ijime. Attitudes towards bullying / ijime, and to school-based interventions were also examined. In the second study, a survey of 1,967 Japanese and English secondary school children was conducted to evaluate their understanding of different forms of bullying / ijime behaviour, and their friendship formations.
The interviews revealed that compared to bullying in U.K, ijime in Japan was seen as more weighted towards verbal and indirect (rather than physical) aggression, that causes victims more often psychological suffering, and is more characteristic of within-grade relationships rather than an older pupil bullying a younger one. As useful coping strategies for the victim, while English pupils consider indirect actions such as 'seeking help from others' to be very useful, more direct actions such as 'fighting back' and 'telling bullies to stop it' are considered more useful by Japanese pupils. The majority of pupils in England had very positive views of school based intervention and teachers' and parents' involvement to tackle the problem, whereas considerable number of pupils in Japan had reluctant and negative attitudes to it.
The survey revealed findings consistent with the first study regarding pupils' understanding of bullying / ijime behaviour. It also found that compared to English pupils, who form their friendships equally with pupils in different year groups as well as those in the same year group, Japanese pupils form friendships based, to a large extent, on the class they belong to. This difference of friendship formation seems partly to stem from the different education systems in England and Japan, which in tum, influence pupil's perceptions and understanding of the nature of bullying / ijime.
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Thesis (Doctoral) |
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school pupils, bullying, ijime, England, Japan |
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April 2004 |
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28541 |
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29 May 2020 09:12 |
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08 Sep 2022 12:28 |
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