SCIENTIFIC METHODS OF STUDYING OSTRACISM IN EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35619/prap_rv.v1i21.350Keywords:
ostracism, scientific methods, overcoming ostracism, research methods for studying ostracism in educational environment, ostracism preventionAbstract
Despite ostracism being a common experience among pupils and students worldwide, there is a lack of research in the field of psychology in Ukraine that is focused on developing practical and reliable methods of exploring the phenomenon of ostracism in the educational environment. At the same time, scientific methods are the only tools that allow us to explore any causality between researched phenomena and prove the reliability of any research findings. Therefore, scientific methods are a crucial element of studying any topic in the scientific field. Consequently, the present article focuses on scientific methods that can be used when exploring the phenomenon of ostracism in an educational environment. The discussed scientific methods can also be employed by school personnel to increase awareness and detection of ostracism in an educational environment. It was also proposed that the questionnaires on the experience of ostracism should be filled out by ostracizers, targets of ostracism, and other members of the educational environment who have neither conducted any acts of ostracizing behavior nor have experienced it.
