I am experiencing a growing insecurity related to the concept of bullying among teachers and staff in the nursery, the professionals who will assist in mobbesaker as well as with the authorities, and this scares me. It is caused by that the concept of tåkelegges through the so-called “new” mobbedefinisjonen.

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are you so concerned that you feel the responsibility to participate in public debate. This is such a situation. I am sincerely upset and scared on behalf of all the children and young people today are exposed to bullying (about 50 000 children and young people in primary school). I’m afraid that they are no longer to be seen and heard if we stop to talk about and describe their specific situation.

Yes, for it is this that is about to happen now and that makes me as a researcher and fellow human being to react so strongly that I am writing this.

It is spoken quite high on the day both on the state collections, as well as at various courses and conferences on the need for a new mobbedefinisjon. The new suggested content describes something completely different than the old one.

we Say yes to take the name of anti-bullying and move it to something that is about something else, so it means that we until now have called bullying is navnløst.

This is the definition on the bullying, as large parts of the world is agreed that:

Bullying is about situations where..:

1. …a person is violated by one or more other regularly over time.

2. …the one who is violated is in a avmaktssituasjon in relation to someone who has more power.

3. …the one who is being offended is powerless in the situation – she or he is unable to get out of it by own means.

Let me be quite specific. This is about Knut,who walked through the forest in the day and was stopped by three large guys who tore him ranselen and emptied out his books.

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Knut, who last week was put into a søppeldunk while the same boys laughed and ran around with him. That was peed on yesterday by the same gang. Knut, who have experienced such events regularly in over half a year now.

This is also about His wife, who every day stands alone during recess because Susanne, the most popular girl in the class, one day began to tell negative things about her so that the other students gradually withdrew. Josie meets daily looks from classmates who tell her that she does not mean anything and that she is not welcome or respected in the group.

Knut and His wife even get out of the situation? I think that even children in first grade quite quickly can reason out that Knut is not strong enough to avoid punches and kicks from the three boys. And it is well obvious that He is not standing by the wall the entire year and receive violations if she could protected themselves against it! Maktforholdet is uneven. They do not even have to do anything to change their situation. They experience regular violations over time.

Who can reject the the massive research that shows that five to ten percent of children and adolescents in various countries of the world are reporting that they are in a similar situation as Knut and His wife?

I challenge all of you, politicians and professionals who advocated for making the situation of these children and young people navneløse in Norway to answer the following questions:

Is it I here describes a real situation for many children and young people? Need this situation a name? If the answer is yes, why should then name this has gotten suddenly be taken over and used on something that is nothing?

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This other the new which some believe will take over the name bullying, is defined as: “Bullying is actions from adults and/or children that prevents the experience of listening to, to be a significant person in the community and prevents the possibility of the contribution” . (Lund, Helgeland, Kovac, 2017).

At the first read look the this quite nice and ivaretakende out. Here shall no be infringed in any way. Here, everyone should get help. The problem is that this new that some believe will take over the name bullying embraces children and young people in very many different types of situations, more or less severe. It may be that an adult takes a child out of special education, which leads to that the child does not feel that she or he belongs to. It may be a racist remark that triggers a sense of violation.

It can be a group of students who feel that the teacher decides everything and thus do not have the empowerment. It can be about a wheelchair user who must be left at the school when the rest of the students go on a trip. It can be Trine that does not get to be in the group she or He gets a bad look and it can of course also be a person who is subjected to the violations regularly over time. All this and much much more can trigger a feeling of not belong, not be a significant person with complicity. It is perhaps not so easy to penetrate that it is harmful to make mobbebegrepet into a sekkebegrep that embraces all types of violations, but it is actually very serious.

Problem that when it no longer is a name that covers the phenomenon of bullying so obscured the situation of those who are exposed. This upsets me so strongly because children who are in a situation similar to Knut and His wife must be seen. To be exposed to violations regularly over time where you are powerless and cannot protect themselves against the insults, is deeply serious! Many are great emotional and social damage. It is they who take their own life. We need to talk about it, we need to research on it, and we must work to prevent it. We need a name, and the name is bullying.

Gradually we have got an increased understanding of both individual factors, gruppeprosesser, culture and environmental factors that maintains and prevents bullying according to the clear definition of the phenomenon has to be agreed in large parts of the world .

Should this research be taken into account and built on here in the Uk?

Let us discuss the approach and various ways to combat the phenomenon of bullying. The academic discussion about what works to prevent, uncover and stop the bullying is important and healthy, but we are hiding away the phenomenon in an obscure sekkebegrep it is a serious abuse against the victims. Vague definitions give unclear responses.