SCHOOL VIOLENCE AND TEACHERS’ RELATED PROBLEMS IN HUNGARIAN SCHOOLS

Abstract

The present paper deals with school violence and bullying in Hungarian schools. The investigation has a quantitative part which included the statistical processing and analysis of the National Assessment of Basic Competencies 2013/2014 and the Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development 2013/2014 databases. The qualitative part of the research included the analysis of professional career narratives, semi-structured interviews, and focus group discussions. The sample of the NABC database contained 1683 premises, the HIERD database contained 8573 teachers. This sample was narrowed to 37 teachers for the qualitative part. According to the results the different forms of violent behaviour are all present in schools showing the same pattern, but to a different extent. Grammar schools seem to be in the most favourable position, while vocational schools showed the most acute problems. According to teachers, students’ violent behaviour causes a problem for them and traditional forms of the teachers’ further professional education trainings have not proved their efficiency.

Keywords

• school violence
• school bullying
• teachers’ further professional education
• school organization