Abstract:

The phenomenon of bullying affects the educational institutions worldwide, and includes harassment and aggression behaviours towards peers, and with psychological and personality development implications. The Present project develops an investigation to affront this problematic in the Institucion Educativa Campo Hermoso at Bucaramanga-Colombia, particularly in the fifth-grade student population. The propositions were executed in two courses (501 & 502) in 2016. The population sample was from 72 students and utilize a quantitative investigation method quasi-experimental, resorting to a control group and an experimental group. In first instance is resorted to a pre-test application, based on the tool named auto-report, permitting to characterize the population. It Is determinate that near 57% of the students have been harmed, the 52% isolated from the group and 24% acknowledge to have assault a schoolmate either by physical or electronic means. The design and implementation of a virtual support course is performed where the students develop social skills for the prevention of bullying, with an intensity of 2 hours weekly and 4 thematic units (Concepts and types of bullying, bullying legislation, social skills and civic competences). Subsequently is performed a post-test whose results were compared with the pre-test using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Significant statistical differences are found between the experimental and control group. Is concluded that is possible to perform a awareness about the central subject of the project, development of cognitive competences about the subject, consolidation of assertiveness skills, empathy and active listening in the experimental group, not achieved in the control group. Finally, as the main limitation of the implementation is the level of knowledge of the students on technological tools.

Keywords:

Bulliyng, online course, elementary education, social skills.