Abstract:
Bullying is an old, widespread and worldwide problem. According to Pinheiro (2006);
Bullying is recognized as a form of violence in schools as well as in educational
institutions. Several negative long term consequences both for students who bully and
for their victims were reported in different literatures for years. School, teachers, and
the rights of a student to learn in a safe environment without fear may get affected by
bullying. People in different countries have different perceptions on bullying concepts
and bullying may occur in different forms; verbal or physical aggression. The effects of being bullied and bullying others in elementary school on education,
health and risky behaviors were also investigated in several researches (Vlachou,
Andreou, Botsoglou, & Didasakalou, 2011; Synder, Brooker, patrick & Synder, 2003;
Kirves & Sajaniemi,2012).It has also been found that being bullied and bullying
reduces GPA by around 20o/o of its standard deviation (Eriksen, Nielsen & Simonsen,
2012). The objective of this research was to gain insight about the effect of being bullied
based on student's individual experience. This study was a qualitative research where
three cases have been developed based on real experience ofthree students from early
grades' Their parents were also interviewed in reference to their experience. Themes
have been discussed to gain deeper understanding on bulling incident in the context of
Bangladesh. While exploring nature of bullying in early childhood, most of the bullying was found
in the form of physical bullying and verbal bultying and place of bulling incident is
inside the school. The aggressive behavior of bully and playing pattern was found
mostly as reason behind bullying or being bullied. Hence, a gender difference in bullying also found that boys are more likely to be involved in bullying and being
bullied. Effects of bullying on students as individual was studied rigorously based on
three student's experience. It has been found that, bullying effected children not only
physically but also they get depressed and in some cases suppressed. As bullying is a
social phenomenon, it was found that children tended to avoid bully or socially
withdraw. Moreover. different findings came about teachers' perception and their
management of bullying incidents. Parents'understanding on bullying incident was
also come into light. Based on findings a set of recommendations were developed for school level, for
teachers and also idea for a larger scale study was suggested to develop anti-bullying
programme.
