School Caste No Shotai Kire Igoto Nuki No Ijime Taio (Shogakukan Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] This is a book that gives a bird's-eye view of "what is happening to children now," and is an "on-the-spot" theory of school caste from a real-life situation. The author, an active junior high school teacher, breaks down the essence of school caste, saying that the determining factor of school caste is communication skills, and deciphers what lies behind such realistic episodes as "modern bullying such as line-bashing" and "children who lose their temper and become violent. The final chapter, which proposes what a functional "response to bullying" should be, is a must-read, even if you are not in the education field. This book is a must-read for anyone in the field of education, and no one will be able to talk about "bullying response" without it.

「子どもたちに、今、何が起きているのか」を、これ1冊で俯瞰できる、血の通った「現場」のスクールカースト論。現役中学校教師である著者は、「スクールカーストの決定要因は、コミュニケーション能力だ」とその本質を喝破、「LINEはずし等の現代型いじめ」や、「キレて暴れ出す子どもたち」等々、リアルなエピソードの背景にあるものを読み解いていきます。機能する「いじめ対応」とはどうあるべきかを提案する最終章は、教育関係者ならずとも、必読です。今後、本書を抜きにして「いじめ対応」は語れません。