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School bullying. Bullying, one form of which is depicted in this staged photograph, is detrimental to students' well-being and development. [1] School bullying, like bullying outside the school context, refers to one or more perpetrators who have greater physical strength or more social power than their victim and who repeatedly act ...
School violence. School violence includes violence between school students as well as attacks by students on school staff and attacks by school staff on students. It encompasses physical violence, including student-on-student fighting, corporal punishment; psychological violence such as verbal abuse, and sexual violence, including rape and ...
School violence prevention through education is the attempt to reduce violence and bullying through comprehensive approaches and interventions within the education sector. It aims to create a safe and non-violent learning environment. Acceptable practices include strong leadership; a safe and inclusive school environment; developing knowledge ...
Psychology. Institutions. University of Bergen. Dan Olweus (April 18, 1931 – September 20, 2020) was a Swedish-Norwegian [1] psychologist. He was a research professor of psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway. Olweus has been widely recognized as a pioneer of research on bullying. [2][3][4]
Career. She is concerned with the promotion of emotional health and well-being in children and young people and is a world authority on bullying in schools, the home and the workplace. [2] Professor Cowie is currently Director of the UK Observatory for the Promotion of Non-Violence at the University of Surrey. [3]
According to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, school violence is a serious problem. [1] [2] In 2007, the latest year for which comprehensive data were available, a nationwide survey, [3] conducted biennially by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and involving representative samples of U.S. high school students, found that 5.9% of students carried a weapon (e ...
Dorothy Espelage is an American psychologist. She is the William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), and an international expert in bullying, youth aggression, and teen dating violence. [1][2][3] She has authored several books including Bullying in North American Schools, Bullying ...
He has written eight books, including Bullying Today: Bullet Points and Best Practices, Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard: Preventing and Responding to Cyberbullying, and School Climate 2.0. His research publications have been cited approximately 23,000 times, and have appeared in such outlets as Journal of Adolescent Health, Journal of Youth and ...