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Brüggemann, A. Jelmer; Forsberg, Camilla; Colnerud, Gunnel; Wijma, Barbro; Thornberg, Robert – Journal of Moral Education, 2019
Bystander passivity has received increased attention in the prevention of interpersonal harm, but it is poorly understood in many settings. In this article we explore bystander passivity in three settings based on existing literature: patient abuse in health care; bullying among schoolchildren; and oppressive treatment of students by teachers.…
Descriptors: Patients, Health Services, Bullying, Teacher Student Relationship
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Thornberg, Robert; Landgren, Lena; Wiman, Erika – School Psychology International, 2018
The aim of the current study was to examine how junior high school students interpret, motivate, and explain various bystander behaviors in bullying situations. The participants were 17 junior high school students recruited from four schools in Sweden. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analysed with grounded theory methods. The…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Bullying, Intervention, Risk
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Forsberg, Camilla; Wood, Laura; Smith, Jennifer; Varjas, Kris; Meyers, Joel; Jungert, Tomas; Thornberg, Robert – Research Papers in Education, 2018
The aim of the present study was to focus on how students articulate and discuss what factors influence students' decisions to defend or not defend victims when witnessing bullying. In this unique qualitative cross-collaborative study, where two research teams collected interviews from two cultural contexts, eighty-nine students with an age-range…
Descriptors: Bullying, Qualitative Research, Victims, Student Attitudes
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Forsberg, Camilla; Thornberg, Robert; Samuelsson, Marcus – Research Papers in Education, 2014
The aim with the present study was to investigate bystander actions in bullying situations as well as reasons behind these actions as they are articulated by Swedish students from fourth to seventh grade. Forty-three semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with students. Qualitative analysis of data was performed by methods from…
Descriptors: Bullying, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Thornberg, Robert; Og uz, Ebru – International Journal of Educational Research, 2013
The aim of the current study was to examine Swedish and Turkish teachers' perspectives on values education. Qualitative interviews with 52 teachers were conducted and analyzed. Values education was mostly about compliance with societal values and norms. The learning goals or values in values education were mainly on how to treat others and on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Values Education, Role Models