PREVENTING AND OVERCOMING BULLYING IN THE DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT: FINDINGS OF THE RESEARCH
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https://doi.org/10.37472/2617-3107-2025-8-02Keywords:
bullying, bullying in the digital educational environment, parents, results, scientific research, stages, students, teachersAbstract
The purpose of the paper is to characterize the main stages of scientific research on the pedagogical principles of preventing and overcoming bullying in the digital educational environment and to generalize its findings. The research methods are: analysis of scientific and methodological lite-rature on the research problem; questionnaires, observations, comparisons, ranking, modeling, analysis and generalization of the obtained data. At the theoretical and constitutive stage of the research, the relevance of the problem in the context of the demands of the Ukrainian society and pedagogical science was revealed; the state of research on the problem in pedagogical theory and practice was analyzed; the essence of the main concepts of the study was clarified; the state of preventing and overcoming bullying in the digital educational environment was characterized. At the experimental and practical stage of the scientific research, the pedagogical conditions for preventing and overcoming bullying in the digital educational environment were substantiated; methods for preventing and overcoming bullying in the digital educational environment were developed; methods were tested on the basis of experimental educational institutions. The main tasks solved at the generalization and implementation stage of the research were: generalization of the results of the formative stage of the pedagogical experiment to identify the influence of pedagogical conditions and the proposed methodological tools on preventing and overcoming bullying in the digital educational environment. It is concluded that pedagogical actions to prevent and overcome bullying in the digital educational environment should be based on pedagogical approaches to preven-ting and overcoming bullying in the educational environment, taking into account the specifics of bu-llying manifestations in the digital space and using digital tools in educational work with students.
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