Prevention and education of children and youth about cyberbullying

Otvaranje lažnih profila, slanje poruka seksualnog i uvredljivog sadržaja kako bi se potaknula svađa i nasilje te aktivno sudjelovanje u grupama mržnje neki su od oblika elektroničkog nasilja. Važno je naglasiti kako djeca i mladi ponekad ne shvaćaju kada zabava postaje nasilje, a posljedice elektroničkog nasilja, iako nevidljive, postoje i teže su od posljedica fizičkog nasilja. Zadatak je odraslih educirati ponajprije sebe i na taj način spriječiti potencijalno elektroničko nasilje te to znanje prenositi na djecu i mlade. Obveza educiranja odnosi se i na lokalnu zajednicu, nadležne institucije kao indirektne sudionike u socijalnom razvoju djece i mladih. Isto se odnosi i na telekomunikacijske tvrtke koje, naposljetku, nude uslugu interneta. Istraživanjem koje je provedeno u tri osnovne škole između djece od petog do osmog razreda u ovom će se radu utvrditi na koji način su djeca i mladi educirani o elektroničkom nasilju, tko im prenosi znanje, na kojim predmetima u školi obrađuju temu elektroničkog nasilja te znaju li se zaštiti od opasnosti koje vrebaju iza ekrana.Creating false profiles, sending sexual messages and messages with offensive meaning to encourage disagreement and violence, active participation in hate groups, are some types of cyberbullying. It is important to emphasize how chlidren, often, do not know when entertainment becomes violence. The consequences of cyberbullying, although sometimes invisible, exist and they are often bigger then consequences of physical violence. The obligation of adults is to educate themselves due to preventing cyberbullying and transfer that knowledge to children. The obligation of education also refers to local community and competent institutions, as an indirect participants in social development of children and youth. The same refers to telecomunications companies which, in the end, provide Internet services. In this paper with the research which was conducted in three primary schools between pupils in fifth and eight grades it will be determined how children and youth are educated about cyberbullying, who educated them, through which school subjects they learned about cyberbullying and do they know how to protect themselves from the danger behind the screen