The Internet Bullying in The Primary School Educational Environment and Coping Practices: A Psycho-Pedagogical Perspective

The article examines the phenomenon of Internet bullying in the educational environment and the readiness of primary school teachers to work with online aggression. Bullying on the Internet is a rather hidden process for others; however, mental injuries inflicted on a person through psychological bullying significantly reduce the possibilities of his development and the quality of his life, leading to serious long-term consequences. Internet bullying is considered as a multifactorial phenomenon in the network and its psychological and pedagogical features in the educational process. Cyberbullying takes various forms already at the stage of primary general education: from direct messages to public rumors and offensive photos, and also the “offender” remains unnoticed.Bullying and slander in the educational environment of primary schools is becoming widespread, which necessitates the creation of effective conditions for its prevention.To date, the situation is complicated by the fact that the number of only recorded episodes of bullying based on complaints from teachers and schoolchildren about online bullying is growing unconditionally. At the same time, many consider the Internet a safe environment. Such a trust in often unreliable or deliberately false information reflects the increased risk of psychological impact on teachers and students.Effective identification of strategies and methods of coping with cyberbullying, identification of the level of influence of the negative Internet environment on the personality of an elementary school teacher can be carried out with the implementation of an integrated approach through a detailed study of the psychological and pedagogical features of the phenomenon.