Did you change your research question since Monday? How? (Did you narrow it? Did you make it broader?) Why did you decide to change it this way? Also, start brainstorming the kinds of resources you might need to answer this research question (books, interviews, statistics, photos, etc)
Monday, our topic was about suicide and bullying. Our topic was rather basic so we started breaking it down. First we tried to identify who. We agreed upon children in the USA and the age group being children in grades 6-12. Grades 6-12 should be guidelines but not a restriction. Suicide would logically be caused by self esteem. So, self esteem and bullying. From there, we tried identifying outside factors of self esteem like social class.
We also started breaking down bullying. Not only in grades 6-12, but by the types of bullying. There are many different types: emotional, physical, mental and even spiritual (ex: in my small town, anyone who wasn't Christian tended to be shunned). There is also bullying differences between boys and girls, between peers and teachers (or other adults of authority). Bullying can be broken down in many ways, but at the same time, it is broad enough to research.
The research types we would need would most likely be found in psychological studies and educational psychologists. Teachers can even comment about the bullying they witness and we can compare and contrast bullying through age groups. I have a particular interest in teacher bullying students though. I feel like teachers are held to a high standard and bullying can be either overlooked or unintended… which brings up another topic: do bullies realize they are bullying?
Should be interesting,
Kayla Ciliberto
Monday, our topic was about suicide and bullying. Our topic was rather basic so we started breaking it down. First we tried to identify who. We agreed upon children in the USA and the age group being children in grades 6-12. Grades 6-12 should be guidelines but not a restriction. Suicide would logically be caused by self esteem. So, self esteem and bullying. From there, we tried identifying outside factors of self esteem like social class.
We also started breaking down bullying. Not only in grades 6-12, but by the types of bullying. There are many different types: emotional, physical, mental and even spiritual (ex: in my small town, anyone who wasn't Christian tended to be shunned). There is also bullying differences between boys and girls, between peers and teachers (or other adults of authority). Bullying can be broken down in many ways, but at the same time, it is broad enough to research.
The research types we would need would most likely be found in psychological studies and educational psychologists. Teachers can even comment about the bullying they witness and we can compare and contrast bullying through age groups. I have a particular interest in teacher bullying students though. I feel like teachers are held to a high standard and bullying can be either overlooked or unintended… which brings up another topic: do bullies realize they are bullying?
Should be interesting,
Kayla Ciliberto
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I really like your research topic (well like in the psychology perspective of breaking it down). Suicide and bullying are such huge topics that I feel as though they are not discussed enough until after someone has been bullied and committed suicide.
ReplyDeleteI also have an interest in teachers who bully students and those teachers that do nothing when they see bullying. I have seen that before in my old high school. A particular teacher allowed a student to bully the kids and at times allow rude comments towards her let slide because the students parents were powerful in the community and gave a lot of money to the school.
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Hi Kayla,
ReplyDeleteAfter reading over your blog, I really like your group’s topic to research. Bullying has become a huge issue in today’s society and the information you and your group will find, I will be interested to listen to. I will be most interested to hear about the teachers who have been accused of bullying or who have confessed to it. You make a good point with your ending question, do they know? If they do, then they should feel the need to stop. I myself have never witnessed a teacher bullying a student but I have heard stories on the news and it breaks my heart because teachers are supposed to be the ones to protect you/help with a bullying situation, not help keep it going.
Paige Boose
I like your groups topic. I feel this is one of the many topics that a lot of people can relate to in several way whether they were the bully or the child being bullied or just a person who has had suicidal thoughts because of mistreatment. This subject does leave room for much research and you wont really have to search to hard to find out facts about certain situation in school and out of school. I am also in agreeance with Kayla.
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