Abstract:

The relationship between teachers and their pupils (students) is key factor of education. Cyberbullying of teachers is a serious problem of the contemporary czech educational reality. There has been a rapid increase in the cyberbullying of teachers in schools by their students. Although it is mainly described in the field of primary and secondary schools and the research on the cyberbullying of teachers by students is still in its infancy, this paper focuses on the situation at selected universities in the Czech Republic. This study examined cyberbullying of teachers on Instagram popular online social network to determine how university students present for example their teachers, their motivation to study and a rivalry of the faculties through photographic content. The researchers selected three popular Instagram profiles made by students and utilized content analysis to obtain quantitative data. The results indicated that most posts include cyberbullying of teachers and they do not relate to university studies.

Keywords:

Instagram, university students, cyberbullying, teachers.