What are people are saying about this issue?
What does the research say?
Bullying. No Way! talks to researchers, practitioners and school communities.
Profiles
Professor Ken
Rigby well known in Australia and worldwide, talks about his
research in relation to school bullying and bystander behaviour.
Professor
Donna Cross specialises in research and programs for building
social responsibility, empathy, assertiveness and decision making skills especially
useful for for the role of bystander in a bullying situation.
Julie
Winlow is Assistant Principal at Huonville Primary School (Tasmania)
where Schoolwide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) focuseson "teaching students
what to do, rather than what not to do. The outcome has included increased
student support for others in need.
Schools in action
A small primary
school in an industrial town promotes learning, caring and sharing
by actively teaching and reinforcing positive behaviours through all areas
of school life.
A small primary
school in coastal district works on building a safe school through
developing respect, appreciation for diversity, and problem solving skills.
Pathways to
positive peer relations - a small inner city primary school community
of about 100 students.
Positive approaches
to preventing bullying and restoring justice - a multicultural
city primary school within a socioeconomically disadvantaged community.
Whole school and/or classroom ideas
Information sheet about how schools can teach and support young people to build more equitable social dynamics, including effective bystander skills.
Information sheet about changing your students’ thinking about ‘dobbing’ to help your school become a ‘telling school’.
Using
stories explains why and how reading and talking with children
helps them understand and deal with bullying. Includes discussion guidelines.
Roles and contributions
Information about various ways in which students can
be involved in creating a safe and supportive school environment.
Other links
Research/articles
Playground Heroes: Who can stop bullying?
Ken Rigby and Bruce Johnson
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/.../rigbyjohnson.html
(The Greater Good Magazine also has other articles that examine
"the psychology of the bystander" Go to Archive)
Expressed readiness of Australian Schoolchildren to Act as Bystanders
in Support of Children who are Being Bullied
Ken Rigby & Bruce Johnson
http://www.education.unisa.edu.au/.../Bystander-Educational-Psychology.pdf
The Role of Peer Bystanders in School Bullying: Positive Steps toward
Promoting Peaceful Schools
Jodie Lodge & Erica Frydenberg
http://www.leaonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1207/s15430421tip4404_6
The Bullying Culture in High Schools
Dorothy Lenthall
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/violence/v5/lenthall%20paper.pdf
Binoculars on bullying: a new solution to protect and connect children
Debra Pepler and Wendy Craig
http://www.newpath.ca/files/Articles/Voices_Report-Bullying.pdf
Bystanders and Bullying: A Summary of Research for Anti-Bullying
Week
Sue Ball (2007) (UK non-government website)
http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/pdf/Bystanders_and_Bullying.pdf
Bullying in context:
Why do they stand by and when will they stand up?
Patricia McDougall, Dept of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan & Tracy
Vaillancourt, Dept of Psychology, McMaster University, Canada. In Education
Letter, Queens University, Canada, pp 7-9.
Links to a useful collection of articles on bystander behaviour and related
issues.
http://www.mac-cura.ca/download%20docs/QueensEducationLetter_FallWinter07.pdf
Ideas for action
Anti-bullying - how to encourage your child to be an effective bystander.
A guide for parents and carers.
http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/media/downloads/schoolsweb/
studentsupport/behaviourpgrms/antibullying/bystanderbhvr.pdf
The Social Norms Approach to Violence Prevention
Alan Berkowitz (2005)
When students are able to be honest about their beliefs and feelings they often
find that their peers are also uncomfortable with abuses of power.
http://toolkit.endabuse.org/Resources/TheSocial.html
Tough Guise
A guide for high school teachers with useful summaries and discussion questions
about media images and social influences on men and boys. May be used with or
without the recommended video. http://www.mediaed.org/videos/MediaGenderAndDiversity/ToughGuise
/studyguide/ToughGuise.pdf
From the US Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) http://www.jacksonkatz.com/mvp.html
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