Teachers’ responses to bullying: Next steps for researchers

ABSTRACT

The papers in this issue address the important component of school bullying – the teacher’s response to incidents that occur – that has not been widely studied. The 10 articles approached the question from various theoretical perspectives using different research methods, informants, measures, and analytic strategies. In this concluding article, we propose that there are challenges for researchers pursuing this line of inquiry, and we discuss those here with the intention of stimulating and informing future research on this critical topic.

KEYWORDS:

• Bullying
• victimization
• teacher responses

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Notes

¹ The papers in this issue are listed in the list of references by identification of the online publications.