I briefly mentioned my bullying project (or rather, anti-bullying project) investigating bullying from the perspective of educators and lawmakers when I posted an excerpt from my research statement. After several months of keeping tabs on bullycide news and reading preliminary sources, I’ve decided it’s time to thrust myself into the project. My projected research avenues:
Avenue 1. Anthropologically-Based Investigation into Bullying in Schools (ABIBS)*
Stage 1. Preliminary surveys to educators and school administrators as well as to parents I know. Recruitment of persons interested in participating in stage 2.Being an anthropologist, my research is interview-based and it seems that using surveys actually requires more hurdles to jump than using interviews. Stage 1 is thus skipped. Update.- Stage 2. Formal interviews with educators, school administrators, school board members, lawmakers, and parents recruited to the research project.
- Stage 3. Workshops and informal interviews in school environment.
- Stage 4: Publication and presentation of research data in conclusion in formal, documentary film, and workshop forms.
Avenue 2. Broad Workup of Adult Institutional Subjugation and Harassment (BWAISH): Interviews with employees in the customer service, publishing, marketing and sales, and administrative support fields. Like “The Office,” but with anthropological methods. 🙂
* I like acronyms.
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