liu.seSearch for publications in DiVA
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • oxford
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Juridification and judgement calls: Swedish schoolteachers’ reflections on dealing with bullying, harassment, and degrading treatment
Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education, Teaching and Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0680-0039
Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education, Teaching and Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education, Teaching and Learning. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9233-3862
2025 (English)In: Education Inquiry, E-ISSN 2000-4508, Vol. 16, no 1, p. 124-137Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

While teachers are obliged to report and investigate incidents of bullying, harassment, and degrading treatment in Swedish schools, research suggests that they sometimes struggle to decide which incidents to report. In this study, we investigate Swedish schoolteachers’ reflections on dealing with bullying, harassment, and degrading treatment, and on balancing their pedagogical work with juridical demands to report. The study is based on qualitative interviews conducted with teachers at three comprehensive schools in Sweden, which were analysed in relation to Bronfenbrenner’s social-ecological framework. The findings demonstrate that teachers make judgement calls regarding which incidents to report and that these influence and are influenced by micro-, meso-, exo-, macro- and chronosystem factors. The findings also suggest that increasing demands for professional accountability negatively affect the professional responsibility of teachers and may lead to them making judgement calls that are not always in the best interests of the children for whom they have responsibility. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2025. Vol. 16, no 1, p. 124-137
Keywords [en]
Bullying, degrading treatment, harassment, teachers, juridification
National Category
Pedagogy
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-191266DOI: 10.1080/20004508.2023.2170016ISI: 000920551100001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-86000375973OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-191266DiVA, id: diva2:1730739
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2017-03604
Note

Funding: Vetenskapsradet [2017-03604]

Available from: 2023-01-25 Created: 2023-01-25 Last updated: 2025-04-23Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(668 kB)278 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 668 kBChecksum SHA-512
bc1965be9a91331ac3896904a01cf123bfa369e0ef0b3b793b32c044d4b3d4b0f325c13952276dd6caee195a98bd275b9061bce64b7cfbd24a2235b47275b6a3
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Horton, PaulForsberg, CamillaThornberg, Robert

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Horton, PaulForsberg, CamillaThornberg, Robert
By organisation
Education, Teaching and LearningFaculty of Educational Sciences
In the same journal
Education Inquiry
Pedagogy

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 278 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 705 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • oxford
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf