Refugee Parents' Perceptions of Bullying Practices of Their Children in Urban Schools

2021 ◽  
pp. 556-570
Author(s):  
Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers ◽  
Otieno Kisiara
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
School Bullying ◽  
Group Method ◽  
School Officials ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Perceptions Of Bullying ◽  
Immigrant And Refugee

The purpose of the chapter is to examine how parents from refugee backgrounds understand and perceive school bullying and anti-bullying policies. Given that bullying continues to be a serious problem in schools, and that immigrant and refugee-background students are particularly severely impacted, it is imperative that perspectives from different stakeholders, including refugee background parents, be incorporated in anti-bullying policies and interventions. Data were collected using the focus group method, with parents drawn from the refugee community in a town in upstate New York. Focus group interviews were conducted with a total of 27 parents from refugee backgrounds. Interviews were recorded and transcribed. Data were analyzed and organized thematically. Findings showed that parents (1) experience secondary stress from bullying of their children, (2) advocate for their children, (3) often feel unheard and diminished by school teachers and administrators, and (4) have an interest in meeting and working with teachers and other school officials to address bullying. Findings provide implications for bullying policies and practices for school personnel.

Refugee Parents' Perceptions of Bullying Practices of Their Children in Urban Schools

2019 ◽  
pp. 378-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers ◽  
Otieno Kisiara
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
School Bullying ◽  
Group Method ◽  
School Officials ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Perceptions Of Bullying ◽  
Immigrant And Refugee

The purpose of the chapter is to examine how parents from refugee backgrounds understand and perceive school bullying and anti-bullying policies. Given that bullying continues to be a serious problem in schools, and that immigrant and refugee-background students are particularly severely impacted, it is imperative that perspectives from different stakeholders, including refugee background parents, be incorporated in anti-bullying policies and interventions. Data were collected using the focus group method, with parents drawn from the refugee community in a town in upstate New York. Focus group interviews were conducted with a total of 27 parents from refugee backgrounds. Interviews were recorded and transcribed. Data were analyzed and organized thematically. Findings showed that parents (1) experience secondary stress from bullying of their children, (2) advocate for their children, (3) often feel unheard and diminished by school teachers and administrators, and (4) have an interest in meeting and working with teachers and other school officials to address bullying. Findings provide implications for bullying policies and practices for school personnel.

Drug Seminar for School Officials—October 24, 1973

1974 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-359
Author(s):  
Burton S. Joseph
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
New York State ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
State Legislature ◽  
School Officials ◽  
York State

The writer attempts to explain the ramifications of some of the more significant new laws on drug abuse and child abuse enacted by the New York State Legislature and relate them to the problems of school personnel.

scholarly journals The focus group method: Insights from focus group interviews on sexual health with adolescents

2005 ◽  
Vol 61 (12) ◽  
pp. 2588-2599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbey Hyde ◽  
Etaoine Howlett ◽  
Dympna Brady ◽  
Jonathan Drennan
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Group Method ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Focus Group Method

scholarly journals Validation of e-Government Information Delivery Attributes: The Adoption of the Focus Group Method

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (10) ◽  
pp. 1069-1095
Author(s):  
José Monteiro ◽  
Maria Bernando ◽  
Mafalda Ferreira ◽  
Tânia Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Information Delivery ◽  
Group Method ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Government Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Government Websites ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Focus Group Method

In democratic countries, government websites became an important channel for interaction with the public administration in the last few years. Nevertheless, several issues have an impact on the way users access to content and information. Lack of accessibility and usability or, in the broad sense, lack of concern with user needs, can still be found in many government websites. To address the problem, a previous literature review on e-government information delivery attributes was performed. Based on this review, a large set of attributes related to quality was obtained to evaluate these dimensions in the context of e-government. The purpose of this study is to better understand which of these attributes are the most valued, in the users’ perspective, for evaluating content delivered by government websites. A qualitative approach was adopted, using Focus Group interviews as a strategy to obtain data and Thematic Analysis to analyze such data. The main results highlighted the attributes related to content delivery, interaction, and emotional aspects. User Experience, accessibility, and usability were prioritized by Focus Group participants.

TEACHER TENURE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 94 (6) ◽  
pp. 922-922
Author(s):  
J. F. L.
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Special Education ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Special Education Teacher ◽  
Board Of Education ◽  
School Officials ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
Teacher Tenure ◽  
Upstate New York

". . . a special education teacher in New York City was arrested, convicted, and sent to prison in 1990 for selling $7000 worth of cocaine to undercover police, and school officials thought it would be easy to dismiss him. Not so. While the teacher, Mr Dubner, served his sentence in Sullivan Correctional Center in upstate New York, he collected his teacher's pay, and, after 5 years and more than $185 000 spent by the Board of Education on disciplinary proceedings, Mr Dubner has prevailed. He still has his job. The story of New York City's failed effort to dismiss Mr Dubner underlines how difficult it has become for school boards to get rid of tenured employees, even in extreme cases."

“Students Getting Pregnant Are Not Gonna Go Nowhere”: Manifestations of Stigma in Adolescent Mothers’ Educational Environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Autumn M. Bermea ◽  
Michelle L. Toews ◽  
Leila G. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Adolescent Mothers ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
School Policies ◽  
School Year ◽  
Group Interviews

The purpose of this study was to examine adolescent mothers’ perceptions of how individuals within the schools viewed them and how those views shaped their educational experiences. The sample consisted of 83 primarily Hispanic adolescent mothers who participated in one of 19 semi-structured focus group interviews during the 2014-2015 school year. Although we did not specifically explore stigma, the adolescent mothers described feeling stigmatized by school personnel and their non-parenting classmates. They also discussed how school policies were not conducive to parenting. Based on the results, recommendations are provided that will help school personnel effectively meet the needs of this population by creating an atmosphere in which the students feel safe, supported, and are able to learn.

scholarly journals Reviewing Identification and Intervention of School Bullying on Perception of Middle School Counselling Teacher on Dealing Bullying

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Lia Endriyani ◽  
Nindita Kumalawati Santoso
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Psychosocial Development ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
School Bullying ◽  
After School ◽  
P Value ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Perceptions Of Bullying

<em>Bullying behavior is serious problem that can affect mental and psychosocial development in both the bully and the victim. School bullying happens in school aged children and occurs during or after school hours. As bullying happened in schools, counseling teacher is one of main resource in efforts to prevent and to intervene bullying situations. Counseling teacher has competencies and authorities regarding this matter. This study aimed to know perception of counseling teacher on dealing with bullying by reviewing information about identification and intervention of school bullying. This study was quasy experiment with one group pre-test and post-test design. Purposive sampling was used to obtain 16 middle school counseling teachers in Kasihan and Pajangan sub district as participants to join this study. The data were collected through modification of Perceptions of Bullying Questionnaire and The Handling Bullying Questionnaire. Data were analyzed by Paired t-test. Majority of respondents were more than 46 years with the highest level of education was bachelor degree. Counseling teacher had experience as counselling teacher for more than 10 years. Teacher’s perceived ability to identify the bully and the victim was in “enough” category. Perceived method to deal with the bully was involving students and their parents while method to deal with the victim was involving students, parents and school personnel. There are significant differences of teacher’s perception on handling bullying before and after intervention (p- value=0.032). Giving information can give a positive effect against the perception the guidance counselor in dealing with bullying.</em>

Management Strategy for Distributing Questionnaires and Interview Guidelines in the Research Data Collection Process

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-111
Author(s):  
Po. Abas Sunarya ◽  
George Iwan Marantika ◽  
Adam Faturahman
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Good Management ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Data Collection Process ◽  
Group Interviews

Writing can mean lowering or describing graphic symbols that describe a languageunderstood by someone. For a researcher, management of research preparation is a veryimportant step because this step greatly determines the success or failure of all researchactivities. Before a person starts with research activities, he must make a written plan commonlyreferred to as the management of research data collection. In the process of collecting researchdata, of course we can do the management of questionnaires as well as the preparation ofinterview guidelines to disseminate and obtain accurate information. With the arrangement ofplanning and conducting interviews: the ethics of conducting interviews, the advantages anddisadvantages of interviews, the formulation of interview questions, the schedule of interviews,group and focus group interviews, interviews using recording devices, and interview bias.making a questionnaire must be designed with very good management by giving to theinformation needed, in accordance with the problem and all that does not cause problems at thestage of analysis and interpretation.

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