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Bullying at High Schools: Scenario of Dhaka City
ISSN: 0976 - 7614
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Bullying at High Schools: Scenario of Dhaka City
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ICC-0402
Publisher: Journal Of Advanced Laboratory Research In Biology Society..
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IAA.ZONE/097644857614
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Abstract
Incidence of bullying among school children is very common and well recognized. The present study explored the existing scenario of bullying in high schools in Dhaka city. Phenomenological approach was used to gather and analyze focus group discussion data from 60 parents, teachers and students from both English and Bangla medium school, selected through convenient sampling. The qualitative analysis using software NVivo, revealed seven forms of bullying such as verbal, emotional, exclusion, physical, sexual, cyber, and race, to be prevalent among high school children. Though bullying found to affect large numbers of high school children in both Bangla and English medium, according to teachers’ report, physical and emotional bullying were more common in Bangla medium, while frequency of verbal, sexual, and cyberbullying were high in English medium. Teachers also reported that student of grade 9 and 10 experienced more sexual and cybe...
