ED384437 PS023456
Title: Bullying at School: What We Know and What We Can Do.
Author(s): Olweus, Dan
Pages: 140
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 0-631-19241-7
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Blackwell Publishers/AIDC, P.O. Box 20, Willinston,
VT 05495-0020 (paperback: ISBN-0-631-19241-7, $14.95; hardcover: ISBN-0-631-19239-5).
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Reports--Descriptive (141); Reports--Research
(143)
Geographic Source: United Kingdom; England
Journal Announcement: RIENOV1995
This book
describes survey data and an intervention program conducted in Sweden
and Norway as part of a government-led nationwide campaign against
bullying. The survey data support some conventional wisdom about
bullying, but also destroy many longheld myths about bullies and
victims. The goals of the intervention program were to: (1) reduce
or eliminate both direct bullying (open physical or verbal attacks)
and indirect bullying (social isolation, confidence reduction);
(2) achieve better peer relations at school; and (3) create conditions
that enabled victims and bullies to function better in and out of
the school setting. The book's introduction sets out the history
of research into bullying. Part 1 defines bullying and surveys what
is known about bully/victim problems among school children: where
it occurs, characteristics of bullies and victims, and causes and
extent of bullying. This survey is based primarily on four research
projects (a longitudinal study and studies connected with a campaign
against bully/victim problems). Guides for identifying bullies and
victims are included. Part 2 gives a detailed presentation of the
goals and methods of the intervention program, and shows how bully/victim
problems can be addressed and counteracted at the school, classroom,
and individual student levels. Part 3 summarizes the positive effects
of the intervention program over a 2-year period; guiding principles
of the program are also presented. Part 4 gives additional practical
advice for implementing the program at a particular school and describes
a set of core program components especially important for implementing
the program. Contains 76 references. (TM)
Descriptors: Aggression; *Antisocial Behavior; *Behavior Change;
Behavior Modification; *Behavior Problems; *Bullying; Change Strategies;
Child Behavior; Elementary Education; *Elementary School Students;
Foreign Countries; *Intervention; Program Effectiveness; *Student
Behavior; Verbal Abuse; Violence
Identifiers: Historical Background; Norway; Sweden
