The Problem with Changing the Folk Law of Bullying : A look at Folk Law and its relation to the Bullying of Teachers in Newfoundland and Labrador
In this paper I will explore the crucial relationship between folk law and bullying in an effort to explain some of the most problematic pieces being left out of current anti-bullying solutions in Newfoundland and Labrador. Using bullying examples from interviews with teachers from across the provin...
| Published in: | Ethnologies |
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Association Canadienne d’Ethnologie et de Folklore
2019
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7202/1069853ar http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1069853ar |
| Summary: | In this paper I will explore the crucial relationship between folk law and bullying in an effort to explain some of the most problematic pieces being left out of current anti-bullying solutions in Newfoundland and Labrador. Using bullying examples from interviews with teachers from across the province of Newfoundland and Labrador collected for my dissertation, “Dialogues of Dominance: Narrative, Occupational Folklore, & the Bullying of Public-School Teachers”, I will attempt to show how insidious the bullying problem really is. I will focus on three key barriers facing school anti-bullying movements in Canada today: the exploitation of folk law; the definitional confusion of ‘bullying’; and the creation and maintenance of a triviality barrier that obfuscates bullying when it happens between adults. I will then use these problems to explain why it falls to the use of folklore to curb this behaviour, and how folkloristics can help with the development of stronger anti-bullying campaigns. Dans cet article, j’explorerai la relation cruciale entre le droit populaire et l’intimidation dans le but d’expliquer certains des éléments les plus problématiques qui ne sont pas pris en compte dans les solutions anti-intimidation actuelles à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador. À l’aide d’exemples d’intimidation tirés d’entrevues avec des enseignants de la province de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, recueillis pour ma thèse, «Dialogues of Dominance: Narrative, Occupational Folklore, and the Bullying of Public-School Teachers», j’essaierai de montrer à quel point le problème de l’intimidation est insidieux. c’est vrai. Je vais me concentrer sur trois principaux obstacles auxquels font face les mouvements de lutte contre l’intimidation dans les écoles au Canada aujourd’hui: l’exploitation de la loi populaire; la confusion définitionnelle de «l’intimidation»; et la création et le maintien d’une barrière de trivialité qui obscurcit l’intimidation lorsqu’elle se produit entre adultes. J’utiliserai ensuite ces problèmes pour expliquer pourquoi il ... |
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