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Project number: 2019-1-PL01-KA201-065722

What we learned about bullying from the artworks?

This contest was one more proof that we as teachers can learn a lot from children.
Children’s vision is sometimes a strong reminder to us that we have to reconsider

many of our values and perceptions. To be more concrete, as we noticed from
participants' artworks, children feel and react to bullying phenomena more
emotionally and empathetically like adults.
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Thus, me noticed that:
Verbal bullying is more dominated. Most of the comics dealt with verbal bullying.
It seems that as children become older they are more likely to bully others not in a
physical way but verbally. Artworks 1,2,6,7,8,10 showed verbal bullying scenes.

Are aware of bullying. Indeed, the majority of the artworks (9/10) dealt with a
very relative topic. This is the result of the previous year’s anti-bullying campaign
in schools. This is a good sign for the bullying phenomenon. (Artwork 5 was about
immigrant bullying – but this is also some useful information that depicts that
social empathy is such a kind of bad situations).
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Victims’ reaction. Artworks 6 and 8 were very characteristic about the way a
victim should react to verbal bullying. These two artworks show that children can
suggest peaceful reaction ways. Violence is not good advice for victims. It usually
causes different results.

About bystanders. None of the artworks included a bystander reaction. Even in
artwork 1, where the teacher noticed the victim’s bitten face, the comic creator did
not depict teachers’ actions. It seems that it is something unusual or unaffected to
victims especially in the classroom. But in the rest of the comics nothing depicted
about bystanders.

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Stereotypes. Artwork 3 is considered as the comic that passes a clear message
about our local community perception for bullying involved persons. Stereotypes
pose a big barrier to anti-bullying actions.

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