Bullying in Schools: How Successful Can Intervention Be?
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- BULLIES' RELATIONSHIPS. Viadero, Debra // Education Week;4/30/2008, Vol. 27 Issue 35, p5
The article discusses a study on bullying in schools. Students who bully their classmates also tend to have lots of conflicts with parents and friends, says a study published in the March-April 2008 issue of the journal "Child Development." Most of respondent children admitted to occasional...
- Girls 'stay bullied for longer'. // Therapy Today;Feb2009, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p5
The article reports on a research which revealed that girls bullied at primary school are two and a half times more likely to remain victims than boys. The research has found that girls who were beaten or threatened physically or verbally at the age of six had less of a chance of escaping...
- SCHOOL BULLYING. // PEB Exchange;Feb2005, Issue 54, p6
Provides information on "Taking Fear Out of Schools," an international policy and research conference on school bullying and violence in Stavanger, Norway on September 5-8, 2004. Conclusions of the conference about school bullying; Organizers of the conference; Research findings on victims of...
- The relationship between bullying behaviours and high school dropout in Cape Town, South Africa. Townsend, Loraine; Flisher, Alan J.; Chikobvu, Perpetual; Lombard, Carl; King, Gary // South African Journal of Psychology;Apr2008, Vol. 38 Issue 1, p21
Bullying is generally defined as largely unprovoked, negative physical or psychological actions perpetrated repeatedly over time between bully/ies and victims. Bullying can lead to fear of school, absenteeism, and stunted academic progress, which in turn are precursors to dropping out of school....
- BEATEN & BASHED 'MY BULLYING HELL'. Williams, Glen // Woman's Day (Australian Consolidated Press);7/31/2006, Vol. 58 Issue 31, p36
The article discusses the author's experience of bullying at school. His family had moved from Sydney, Australia to Queensland to pursue better opportunities. He was really excited about starting school in Queensland. But he was singled out from day one. The bullying started with name-calling...
- A Bully's Tale. // Education Canada;Summer2005, Vol. 45 Issue 3, p43
The article presents a personal narrative of experiences of being bullied when the author was a student. She relates how she was bullied, both physically and psychologically, during her elementary years. She relates how she was able to stop the bullying only after she herself used violence. She...
- Myths and Facts About Bullying in Schools. Juvonen, Jaana // Behavioral Health Management;Mar/Apr2005, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p36
Questions some of the misconceptions about bullying among school children in the U.S. Definition and manifestations of bullying; Self-perception among bullies; Social status of bullies; Criticism against depiction of victims of bullying in the news medial; Key principle of a school-wide anti...
- Telling Tough Truths. Sternberg, Juliet // Independent School;Summer2008, Vol. 67 Issue 4, p90
The article presents information on a survey about students' experiences of bullying conducted by Friends' Central School, a middle school in Pennsylvania. The survey assessed students' overall feeling of safety at school, the extent to which they view bullying at school as a problem, and their...
- Project WIN evaluation Shows Decreased Violence and Improved Conflict Resolution Skills for Middle School Students. Roberts, Laura; Yeomans, Peter; Ferro-Almeida, Susan // Research in Middle Level Education Online;2007, Vol. 30 Issue 8, p1
We believe the problems of school violence are linked to competition and bullying in school culture. We also believe that by fostering more cooperation and more compassion in school culture, we can reduce school violence. One of the ways to develop school culture is to implement conflict...
