Bullying evidences among children and Teacher Protection at Primary Schools in a District of East Java.
Laurens Kaluge, Onik Farida Ni^matullah, Endang Surjati, Sri Wulandari

Graduate Program on Social Studies Education, Universitas PGRI Kanjuruhan - Malang, Indonesia

Abstract

Information about bullying perceived as negative actions that invited complaints from people, however, its handling at schools was still very minimally disclosed in educational research. This study raised the issue on pupil experiences and the teacher efforts to protect the victims against bullying on the basis of pupil gender and distance from home to school as the main aim. Two research questions were raised. Firstly, to what extent the bullying experience among children and teacher protection took place? Secondly, in terms of gender and home distance, did children bullying and teacher actions make difference? This study was a quantitative research. Samples were 149 pupils, obtained randomly from upper grades of ten elementary schools. The instrument was an online questionnaire consisted of items on individual characteristics and statements adopted from a bully index in Likert scale format. The data were processed through descriptive analysis and Anova. The descriptions of bullying explained that all the items appeared to be higher than the middle of the highest scores, meant that such phenomena tended to be critical. Results from Anova showed that no differences on bullying experiences between boys and girls except in perceiving fun, on teacher overlooking and on helps from the teacher to the victims, boys were significantly lower. Related to the home to school distance, mostly non difference except in teacher treatment more extensive to those who stay close to the school. The findings of this study had implications for educational policies in practices that are often complained of.

Keywords: bullying, elementary school, teacher protection

Topic: Elementary Education