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How
are different groups, such as ethnic minorities, asylum seekers
and disabled pupils, affected by bullying?
This Scottish study
(see Stead, Closs and Arshad, 1999) gathered information
about the school experiences of young refugees. When the
12 young refugees were asked about name calling, bullying
and racism all but one said they had experienced this. Interviews
with parents revealed that they felt very strongly about
bullying and racism and how their children got on with other
children.
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Article details
J Stead, A Closs and
R Arshad (1999) 'Refugee Pupils in Scottish Schools', SCRE
Spotlight, Number 74. This article can be viewed
online here. Please note that there is just a brief
reference to bullying in this paper.
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Author
details
 Rowena
Arshad OBE has been Director of the Centre
for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland (CERES)
at The University of Edinburgh since 1994. She has been
involved in the area of equality (particularly race equality)
since 1983 and has published widely in this area. More recently
she has been involved in research into the school experiences
of refugee children in Scotland and the experiences of minority
ethnic pupils. Rowena may be contacted by email.
Alison Closs is Senior
Lecturer at Moray House School of Education at The University
of Edinburgh. In addition to her teaching commitments she
has been involved in educational research for a number of
years. Her research interests include SEN/Support for Learning,
the education of children with chronic and/or deteriorating
conditions and the school experiences of refugee pupils
and their parents in Scotland. In a recent study she investigated
the experiences of disabled children and adults in the former
Yugoslavia. She is also on the editorial team of the Scottish
Schools Ethos Network. Alison may be contacted by email.
Dr Joan Stead is a
researcher at the Moray House School of Education at The
University of Edinburgh. Her recent research has focused
on: the experiences of refugee children in schools, school
exclusion, the experiences of Traveller children in schools
and also social inclusion of visually impaired pupils in
mainstream schools. Joan may be contacted by email.
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