“Let’s talk about it”: Group conversations that unintendedly reinforces bullying patterns

Bidragets oversatte titel: "Lad os snakke om det" - gruppesamtaler, der mod intentionen forstærker mobbemønstre

Publikation: Konferencebidrag uden forlag/tidsskriftPaper/skriftligt oplægFormidling

Abstract

The paper is based on the dissertation "Bullying and interventions – positioning theoretical analysis of group conversations with children” (Kaplan Jørgensen 2016), which is a qualitative study of selected group meetings used in Danish Schools with the intention to reduce or stop bullying. Many of those group meetings lean on assumptions of transformative potentials in “dialogues” – convictions that “talking about it” is a helpful and rather harmless practice. This paper takes a critical stance towards these assumptions and argues that the “talking about it” is far from innocent and potentially have unintended effects.
Based on a comprehensive qualitative study the paper offers insight into power struggles and negotiations that take place during group meetings and shows how these negotiations interact with current bullying patterns in selected classes. The paper sheds light on how the conversations are appropriated by the children to continue micro-political negotiations in ways that are adjusted to the dominant principles that the different arenas are led by. For example, how a girl meeting, which is dominated by a "talking cure" principle, requires and legitimizes certain speech acts and storylines, which, despite the fact that they are producing contempt and are enforcing already existing exclusions, gain ground and become dominant among the girls at the meeting. One of the important insights is thus that group conversations - despite the good intentions, - will sometimes be a paradoxical force which, rather than reducing bullying patterns, might strengthen them.
Bidragets oversatte titel"Lad os snakke om det" - gruppesamtaler, der mod intentionen forstærker mobbemønstre
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Publikationsdato9 maj 2017
StatusUdgivet - 9 maj 2017
BegivenhedWorld Anti Bullying Forum 2017 - Quality Hotel Friends, Stockholm, Sverige
Varighed: 7 maj 20179 maj 2017
http://www.wabf2017.com/

Konference

KonferenceWorld Anti Bullying Forum 2017
LokationQuality Hotel Friends
Land/OmrådeSverige
ByStockholm
Periode07/05/1709/05/17
Internetadresse

Emneord

  • Børn og unge
  • Interventioner
  • Mobning, børnehaveliv, inklusion, ekslusion, social psykologi
  • gruppesamtaler
  • Læring, pædagogik og undervisning

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