Analysis of E-Storybook on Bullying Written by Preschool Preservice Teachers

The aim of this study is to investigate the content of e-story books on the topic of bullying that are prepared by preservice preschool teachers. The study consists of 50 e-storybooks created by preservice teachers studying in the 2nd class of the Preschool Education Department of Kocaeli University in the 2023-2024 academic year, using the "storyjumper" application from Web 2 tools, about bullying in the school settings as part of the children's literature course. Based on the results of the research, verbal bullying is the most common type of bullying in e-stories. While the bully characters are mostly male, the gender distribution of the victim characters is close, and the victim characters are mostly bullied because of their physical characteristics. The peer characters in the stories are mostly followers of the bully. The most common strategy used by victims to cope with bullying is to avoid the current situation. It can be seen that teachers play the most important role in solving the bullying problem in the stories. [This paper was published in: "EJER Congress 2024 International Eurasian Educational Research Congress Conference Proceedings," edited by Senel Poyrazli, Ani Publishing, 2024, pp. 21-25.]