Study on Bullying Among Children

Abstract

The reality was that there were still many students who bullied their peers. Therefore, the focus of this study was to identify the characteristics of bullying, the characteristics and the impact of perpetrators, and how to deal with it in an Islamic primary school. This descriptive qualitative study, used four segments of key informants. They were the principal, classroom teachers, the perpetrators and victimized students. Data were collected through interviews and observations. Data analysis was performed by testing the validity of the data through triangulation. The results of the study discovered that there were two types of bullying that occurred in schools, namely verbal bullying in the forms of mocking the victim and social bullying in the forms of excluding the victim. Social media was a sort of popular tool of bullying. The school's response was to call the perpetrator, warn not to repeat, and if it happened again, the teacher would give educational sanctions. In resolving the bullying on social media, efforts are made for deliberations between guardians of students and those who were fighting for the sake of creating a conducive social climate at school so that it was gradually eliminated.