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Background <p>Despite children and adolescents having the right to an education free from sexual harassment, peer sexual harassment remains a common part of everyday school life. While peer sexual harassment is known to have many adverse consequences for students, there is a lack of research investigating students’ own perspectives on the matter. Additionally, there is little exploration of the sequence of events leading up to incidents of such harassment, and of the reactions that follow by those involved. Therefore, the primary objective of the EthnoPRISE project is to understand peer sexual harassment based on how it is expressed in students’ everyday school lives across adolescence, and how it is perceived, interpreted, and experienced by the students themselves.</p> Methods <p>The EthnoPRISE project has a short-term ethnographic design and will include field observations, informal conversations, and focus group interviews. Three separate sub-studies will be conducted, each focusing on a different age group. Drawing from a developmental contextual perspective, data will be collected in Grade 5 (11–12&#xa0;years), Grade 8 (14–15&#xa0;years), and the second year of high school (17–18&#xa0;years). One or two classes will be observed per age group, adding up to approximately 25&#xa0;weeks of total observations across grades. In addition, at least 10 focus group interviews will be conducted per grade (totaling approximately 120 participants). We will use qualitative analyses, including reflexive thematic analysis and constructivist grounded theory, to analyze the data.</p> Discussion <p>The EthnoPRISE project has the potential to provide novel insights into students’ experiences of peer sexual harassment in school. The findings from the current project may contribute to a deeper understanding of the complexity surrounding peer sexual harassment in schools and to inform more effective and developmentally appropriate measures to prevent it. Further, the project will give students the opportunity to express their perspectives on peer sexual harassment including their opinions on what should be done to reduce the problem.</p>

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Study protocol for EthnoPRISE: an ethnographic study of peer sexual harassment in school

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    2026年3月28日

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  • Kristina Holmqvist Gattario,
  • Hannah Hallén,
  • Therése Skoog,
  • Robert Thornberg,
  • Carolina Lunde

摘要

Background

Despite children and adolescents having the right to an education free from sexual harassment, peer sexual harassment remains a common part of everyday school life. While peer sexual harassment is known to have many adverse consequences for students, there is a lack of research investigating students’ own perspectives on the matter. Additionally, there is little exploration of the sequence of events leading up to incidents of such harassment, and of the reactions that follow by those involved. Therefore, the primary objective of the EthnoPRISE project is to understand peer sexual harassment based on how it is expressed in students’ everyday school lives across adolescence, and how it is perceived, interpreted, and experienced by the students themselves.

Methods

The EthnoPRISE project has a short-term ethnographic design and will include field observations, informal conversations, and focus group interviews. Three separate sub-studies will be conducted, each focusing on a different age group. Drawing from a developmental contextual perspective, data will be collected in Grade 5 (11–12 years), Grade 8 (14–15 years), and the second year of high school (17–18 years). One or two classes will be observed per age group, adding up to approximately 25 weeks of total observations across grades. In addition, at least 10 focus group interviews will be conducted per grade (totaling approximately 120 participants). We will use qualitative analyses, including reflexive thematic analysis and constructivist grounded theory, to analyze the data.

Discussion

The EthnoPRISE project has the potential to provide novel insights into students’ experiences of peer sexual harassment in school. The findings from the current project may contribute to a deeper understanding of the complexity surrounding peer sexual harassment in schools and to inform more effective and developmentally appropriate measures to prevent it. Further, the project will give students the opportunity to express their perspectives on peer sexual harassment including their opinions on what should be done to reduce the problem.