Bullying is a destructive social problem in schools that needs attention. Schools have the responsibility to create safe place where students can learn without fear of being bullied. The purpose study was explore child protection measures against bullying selected special education Luapula province. This guided by Constructivist Paradigm, keeping with research paradigm, qualitative intrinsic ca...

This article aims to reformulate existing understandings of bullying behaviours in secondary schools, by applying a critical feminist lens to patterns of verbal and psychological harassment among students. Through this understanding, educators may better understand the causes of (hetero)sexist, transphobic, and homophobic behaviours. With a more complex awareness of these power relations, teach...

Bully/victim problems among school children are a matter ofconsiderable concern in Scandinavia and, more recently, in a number of other countries as well. Estimates based on the author's large-scale surveys indicate that some 9% ofthe students in grades 1 through 9 are fairly regular victims ofbullying and that 6-7% engage in bullying others with some regularity. It is argued that it is a funda...

Bullying is a very toxic psychosocial stressor associated with serious health problems and death, affecting both the victims and the bullies. This form of abuse or maltreatment occurs around the world and along the lifespan. Health professionals have the unique responsibility of promoting the development of community initiatives for the prevention of bullying and related health problems. This e...

The present investigation was conducted to see the effect of gender of head teachers on the academic success of the school students in Bangladesh. A total of 60 head teachers (male = 37, female = 23) and 3776 students (boys = 2142, girls = 1634) were randomly selected from the schools in a divisional town in Bangladesh to serve as sample. Academic success records of the students in their Primar...

Public-sector education in many countries in western and southern Asia, including Pakistan, is characterized by separate schools for boys and girls at the primary and secondary levels. We examine the case of Pakistan, where primary school enrollment among girls in rural areas is substantially lower than among children in urban areas and boys in rural areas, owing to lack of access to government...

This study determines the prevalence of bullying and the variables that explain the phenomenon in adolescents from educational institutions in Medellín. A survey involving school climate, family functionality and bullying was applied in a representative sample of 3,460 adolescents. The information was analyzed with descriptive measures, Z-test, prevalence ratios, MannWhitney test and logistic r...

Background and purpose: Many holistic anti-bullying interventions have been attempted, with mixed success, while little work has been done to promote a 'self-help' approach to victimization. The rise of the ICT curriculum and computer support in schools now allows for approaches which benefit from technology to be implemented. This study evaluates the cross cultural effects of a computer based ...

Introduction. Bullying is a phenomenon that implies an imbalance of power between peers. It refers to situations where there are repeated verbal and physical attacks, social exclusion, emotional, psychological, sexual abuse one student by another/ other students, the victim did not cause such behavior bully. Objective. The objective this research was determine teachers' attitudes towards repres...