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ERIC Number: ED649160
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 81
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 979-8-3819-5207-0
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Middle School Teacher, Principal, and Counselor Perspectives on Reducing or Preventing Bullying Behaviors
Lallabrigida Cooper Singleton
ProQuest LLC, Psy.D. Dissertation, Touro University Worldwide
In 2018 there were incidents of mass school shootings recurring monthly during the school year. Newspaper articles have reported since Columbine, many of the school shooters had been bullied during their school years; hence, the phrase "bullied turned bully" New Ways to Stop Bullying (2019), suggests bullying occurs most frequently from sixth to eight grades with little variation between urban, suburban, town and rural areas. This is a phenomenological qualitative study of middle school teachers, principals, and staff perspectives on adopting positive intervention methods to prevent negative bully behaviors. Currently, there is some qualitative research with school staff (i.e., teachers) that has examined the efficacy of intervention programs to help in reducing bullying behaviors (i.e., Maxwell, 2014). There still needs to be more research on the perspectives of school staff (ex., School Teachers, Principals, and Staff) upon the challenges and considerations of targeting positive attribute training interventions towards bullies in a middle school setting. Eight middle school staff members were selected to be interviewed face to face as participants on their school campus in the Winter of 2020, which later, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, had to be changed to face-to-face on Zoom. All Clark County School District Middle School Principals were notified by an email attached letter and followed up by phone. Each participant was questioned utilizing the same opened-end questionnaire. (See Appendix A) QDA Miner Lite software was used for the analysis of written or transcribed texts, such as the interview responses and open-ended responses. Answers were then put into an Excel spreadsheet to organize these similar answers. Consequently, those answers were categorized and labeled accordingly under each question in accordance with themes. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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