Pesten is een serieus probleem waarvan betrokken kinderen tot ver in hun volwassenheid nog last kunnen houden. Ingrijpen is dus heel belangrijk. Maar in de praktijk verloopt de antipest-samenwerking tussen leerkrachten en ouders lang niet altijd vlekkeloos. Samenwerking tussen leerkrachten en ouders draagt bij aan de ontwikkeling van kinderen. Dit is onder gewone omstandigheden soms al een uitdaging en des te meer als er sprake is van een lastige situatie, zoals pesten. Op 3 Nederlandse basisscholen hebben leerkrachten, ouders en onderzoekers in een participatief actieonderzoek de werkzame factoren voor ‘family-school partnership’ bij pesten in kaart gebracht. Ze verzamelden ervaringskennis van kinderen, ouders en leerkrachten op hun eigen school, spoorden verbeterpunten op en ontwikkelden oplossingen voor de praktijk.
In deze lezing doen we op basis van de onderzoeksbevindingen concrete suggesties voor het versterken van antipest-samenwerking tussen ouders en leerkrachten.
Bullying at school is an emotionally charged topic that significantly tests the relationship between parents and teachers. It is a sensitive issue as it directly relates to the child's upbringing at home. Furthermore, parents and teachers have differing perspectives on the child, and the strategies they adopt to curb bullying are based on different perspectives and spheres of influence. In recent years, a variety of measures have been implemented in order to combat bullying at primary schools. Many different anti-bullying programmes have been developed for schools and a wide range of methods, training courses and tools are available to help teachers work together with parents in order to optimise their child's educational development. However, all of these anti-bullying methods lack concrete advice and tools to help teachers work together with parents whose children are personally involved in an incidence of bullying, despite experts across the board agreeing that cooperation between parents and teachers is of vital importance.The goal of this project is to develop an effective strategy to facilitate cooperation between parents and teachers that can be employed in the event of bullying as a supplement to existing anti-bullying programmes. This consortium's ambition is to boost the social safety of children in primary education by applying expertise in the field of bullying and parental involvement, and by combining past experiences.
