Georges Steffgen – författare

Cyberbullying is one of the darker and more troubling aspects to the growing accessibility of new media technologies. Children in developed countries engage with cyberspace at younger and younger ages, and the use of the internet as a means to bully and harass has been greeted with alarm by educationalists, parents, the media, and governments.

This important new book is the result of a four-year international collaboration, funded by the EU, to better understand how we can cope and confront cyberbullying, and how new media technologies can be used to actually support the victims of such abuse. The articles initially define the historical and theoretical context to cyberbullying, before examining key issues involved in managing this pervasive phenomenon. Coverage includes:　

The book concludes with practical guidance to help confront the trauma that cyberbullying can cause. It will be a valuable resource for researchers, students, policy makers and administrators with an interest in how children and young people are rendered vulnerable to bullying and harassment through a variety of online channels.

Cyberbullying is one of the darker and more troubling aspects to the growing accessibility of new media technologies. Children in developed countries engage with cyberspace at younger and younger ages, and the use of the internet as a means to bully and harass has been greeted with alarm by educationalists, parents, the media, and governments.

This important new book is the result of a four-year international collaboration, funded by the EU, to better understand how we can cope and confront cyberbullying, and how new media technologies can be used to actually support the victims of such abuse. The articles initially define the historical and theoretical context to cyberbullying, before examining key issues involved in managing this pervasive phenomenon. Coverage includes:　

The book concludes with practical guidance to help confront the trauma that cyberbullying can cause. It will be a valuable resource for researchers, students, policy makers and administrators with an interest in how children and young people are rendered vulnerable to bullying and harassment through a variety of online channels.

Rassismus, also Diskriminierung von Menschen aufgrund deren vermeintlicher ethnischer Herkunft, ist an Schulen allgegenwärtig. Neben Schüler*innen, Referendar*innen und Lehrer*innen sind mithin alle Akteur*innen im schulischen Kontext von dieser Thematik betroffen.

Warum ist dem so? Wie lässt sich rassistische Diskriminierung erklären? Welche Auswirkungen hat dieses Verhalten auf Betroffene? Und wie kann Schule dem begegnen? All dies sind Fragen, die sich stellen und die in diesem Buch in der Absicht beantwortet werden sollen, allen im Schulkontext handelnden Personen eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den eigenen rassismusrelevanten Wissensbeständen zu ermöglichen. Dieses Buch trägt dazu bei, dass sich Schule zu einem rassismussensiblen Raum entwickelt, in dem sich alle Akteur*innen rassismussensibel verhalten.

Daher werden neben einem Überblick über die Geschichte des Rassismus, Ansätze zur Erklärung von rassistischen Verhaltensweisen und Auswirkungen von rassistischer Diskriminierung auch Präventions- und Interventionsansätze für eine rassismuskritische Praxis in der Schule vorgestellt.

Racism, i.e. discrimination against people on the basis of their supposed ethnic origin, is omnipresent in schools. Apart from students, trainees and teachers, all actors in the school context are affected by this topic.Why is this so? How can racist discrimination be explained? What effects does this behavior have on those affected? And how can schools counteract it? These are all questions that arise and which this book aims to answer with the intention of enabling all those acting in the school context to critically examine their own knowledge bases relevant to racism. This book contributes to the development of school as a racism-sensitive space in which all actors behave in a racism-sensitive manner.Therefore, in addition to an overview of the history of racism, approaches to explaining racist behavior and the effects of racist discrimination, prevention and intervention approaches for a practice critical of racism in schools are presented.

Bullying is a widespread problem in schools. This book provides current explanations for the phenomenon of bullying in schools. It is shown that bullying does not only take place between victims and perpetrators, but that usually all members of a school class can be involved. Accordingly, it is described what consequences bullying can have for all those involved.  Secondly, general prevention and intervention approaches are described and eleven anti-bullying programs are presented in detail. A special focus of the book is on bullying aftercare concepts as well as practice-related digressions by proven experts.

​Das Buch „Angst an Schulen“ gibt einen detaillierten Überblick über verschiedene Aspekte von Angst im schulischen Kontext. Es behandelt die Prävalenz von Ängsten bei Schülern, spezifische Ängste, wie Prüfungsangst und Schulphobie sowie Angststörungen, wie generalisierte Angststörung und Panikstörung. Zudem werden Gruppen mit erhöhter Vulnerabilität, wie Minoritäten und neurodivergente Personen, betrachtet. Weitere Themen sind sexuelle und geschlechtliche Vielfalt an Schulen sowie praktische Fallbeispiele und Interventionen. Insgesamt bietet das Buch einen umfassenden Einblick in die vielschichtige Thematik der Angst und richtet sich an Fachleute und Interessierte im Bildungsbereich.

The book covers how to deal with grief in schools. Grief reactions of children and adolescents are described and reasons for grief are presented: Death due to chronic illness, sudden deaths such as suicide, accident, and severe targeted violence. Appropriate intervention measures are presented. Finally, the limitations of these intervention measures in schools are discussed.