School bullying, awareness campaigns, bullying prevention, childrens literature, Dan Olweus, bullying support, National Day Not to bullying, school environment, violence prevention, child psychology
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This document discusses the global fight against school bullying, highlighting awareness campaigns, intervention strategies, and the role of media, including the children's book 'A Fox in My School' by Ronan Badel and Olivier Dupin.
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News, facts, lessons, and statistics
The contribution of the work of psychologist Dan Olweus
Description of measures for prevention, awareness, and fighting against school bullying
The new information and communication technologies, the digital as resonance factors of the works of Dan Olweus ?
A Fox in My Schoolwork
News, facts, lessons, and statistics
The contribution of the work of psychologist Dan Olweus
Description of measures for prevention, awareness, and fighting against school bullying
The new information and communication technologies, the digital as resonance factors of the works of Dan Olweus ?
A Fox in My Schoolwork
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[...] It is not just any animals; the author chooses the fox, wolf, and tiger as metaphorical tools. These animals are all mentioned in the famous fables of Jean de La Fontaine, to which all French schoolchildren are exposed and taught during their time in primary school. Now, whether in 'The Crow and the Fox,' 'The Wolf and the Lamb,' or 'The Lion and the Rat,' the animals mentioned by Olivier Dupin have a representation with a pejorative connotation in La Fontaine's fables. They are often associated with vice, duplicity, cunning, and predation. [...]
[...] The acts committed against the victim schoolboy fall under the category of characterized aggression (theft of the snack and other bullying during recess). The outcome of this epilogue ends positively, as the child victim of these actions, exhausted and stressed, reports these multiple aggressions to his mother, who will manage to put an end to these actions with the help of the teacher. The intervention of the latter allows the children transformed into wolves to become children again." As indicated at the beginning of the first paragraph, the book Fox in My School' is aimed at all age groups, but specifically at children. [...]
[...] This school bullying was the work of a handful of students and targeted the 9-year-old child's weight. The mocking suffered (within the establishment and outside the school establishment) would have plunged the child into a level of depression that would have led to the fatal act. This hypothesis is all the more probable as the bullying was supported and recurrent to the point that the parents had made several reports and the young girl did not have digital tools that could expose her to the evils of social networks, in addition, the hypothesis is approved by the forensic doctor This tragic incident is a typical case of school bullying in France and even internationally as it has become an international problem within OECD member countries2 (the so-called developed and prosperous nations). [...]
[...] While the very recent case of the 9-year-old schoolgirl from Sarreguemines is not related to cyberbullying, it is instead focused on mockery related to the child's weight, thus fatphobia. This scourge has unfortunately become almost a norm in the school environment according to the World Health Organization: as of 2022, the WHO estimated that approximately two-thirds of overweight children may be subjected to bullying3. The WHO also revealed from a survey that three-quarters of children under 10 years old have a negative representation of overweight people. [...]
[...] Today, the situation is radically different because school bullying is now recognized as a crime in France since March 2022. The new information and communication technologies, the digital as factors of resonance of the works of Dan Olweus? It is essential to note that the works of the Norwegian psychologist were produced in the 1980s and the international propagation was quite sudden, and we cannot help but hypothesize a link between the expansion of the internet, the NTICs at the end of the 1980s, the beginning of the 1990s, and the media resonance of his work on bullying. [...]
