Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- 1 Working to prevent school bullying: key issues
- 2 The Olweus Bullying Prevention Programme: design and implementation issues and a new national initiative in Norway
- 3 Is the direct approach to reducing bullying always the best?
- 4 Implementation of the Olweus Bullying Prevention programme in the Southeastern United States
- 5 Prevention of bullying in German schools: an evaluation of an anti-bullying approach
- 6 England: the Sheffield project
- 7 Making a difference in bullying: evaluation of a systemic school-based programme in Canada
- 8 Interventions against bullying in Flemish Schools: programme development and evaluation
- 9 SAVE model: an anti-bullying intervention in Spain
- 10 Australia: the Friendly Schools project
- 11 The Expect Respect project: preventing bullying and sexual harassment in US elementary schools
- 12 A follow-up survey of anti-bullying interventions in the comprehensive schools of Kempele in 1990–98
- 13 Targeting the group as a whole: the Finnish anti-bullying intervention
- 14 Ireland: the Donegal Primary Schools' anti-bullying project
- 15 Bernese programme against victimisation in kindergarten and elementary school
- 16 Looking back and looking forward: implications for making interventions work effectively
- Author index
- Subject index
- References
5 - Prevention of bullying in German schools: an evaluation of an anti-bullying approach
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- 1 Working to prevent school bullying: key issues
- 2 The Olweus Bullying Prevention Programme: design and implementation issues and a new national initiative in Norway
- 3 Is the direct approach to reducing bullying always the best?
- 4 Implementation of the Olweus Bullying Prevention programme in the Southeastern United States
- 5 Prevention of bullying in German schools: an evaluation of an anti-bullying approach
- 6 England: the Sheffield project
- 7 Making a difference in bullying: evaluation of a systemic school-based programme in Canada
- 8 Interventions against bullying in Flemish Schools: programme development and evaluation
- 9 SAVE model: an anti-bullying intervention in Spain
- 10 Australia: the Friendly Schools project
- 11 The Expect Respect project: preventing bullying and sexual harassment in US elementary schools
- 12 A follow-up survey of anti-bullying interventions in the comprehensive schools of Kempele in 1990–98
- 13 Targeting the group as a whole: the Finnish anti-bullying intervention
- 14 Ireland: the Donegal Primary Schools' anti-bullying project
- 15 Bernese programme against victimisation in kindergarten and elementary school
- 16 Looking back and looking forward: implications for making interventions work effectively
- Author index
- Subject index
- References
Summary
Impetus for the intervention study, early stages of planning, and funding
Within the last decade several epidemiological studies on school bullying have been carried out nationally as well as internationally (Olweus, 1991; Smith, Morita, Junger-Tas, Olweus, Catalano, and Slee, 1999). In Germany a number of cross-section studies were published (Holtappels, 1987; Tillmann, 1994; Todt and Busch, 1994). However, in contrast to the wide number of descriptive correlational studies on bullying and aggression, there are relatively few longitudinal studies that allow us to assess possible changes in bullying.
This chapter presents the conception, implementation, and evaluation of an intervention study to prevent bullying and aggression in German schools. In 1993 a survey was commissioned by the Ministry of Education of the Land Schleswig-Holstein to assess the extent of bullying and victimisation in schools in Schleswig-Holstein. From the results of the survey, recommendations for school-based violence prevention were derived (Niebel, Hanewinkel, and Ferstl, 1993). The Ministry of Education formed the networking group ‘violence prevention in schools’ which consisted of school staff, parents, as well as experts from different working areas. The working group decided to adapt and implement an anti-bullying programme in schools in Schleswig-Holstein which is based on the concepts and ideas of Dan Olweus (1993).
Selection of schools
In April 1994, the information brochure ‘Prevention of Violence and Aggression in Schools’ was distributed to all schools in Schleswig-Holstein (N = 1,055), introducing the idea of, as well as offering participation in, the programme.
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- Bullying in SchoolsHow Successful Can Interventions Be?, pp. 81 - 98Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004
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