Foreign experience in bullying prevention in schools

Keywords: bullying, forms of bullying, bullying prevention, causes of bullying, bullying participants.

Abstract

The aim of the article is to conduct a comprehensive study of bullying prevention at schools using foreign experience. The subject of research is the concept of bulling and features of its manifestation in educational institutions. The research methodology includes general scientific and special methods of legal science: method of theoretical analysis and systematization of scientific literature, method of modeling, statistical method, dogmatic method, logical method, method of summarization. Research results. The main causes, consequences of bullying in schools are analyzed and the characteristics of its participants are given. It is determined that bullying can be considered as a social, legal, psychological and pedagogical problem. Practical meaning. It is proved that schools without bullying differ in cohesion and various extracurricular forms of interaction between students. Value / originality. It is stated that the main means of counteracting this negative phenomenon in educational institutions are active public life, an atmosphere of openness, the possibility of collective conflict resolution under the guidance of a caring teacher.

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Author Biographies

Vitalii Vasylevych, National Academy of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

Doctor of Law, Professor, Scientific Secretary of the Scientific Council Secretariat of the National Academy of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

Svitlana Obrusna, Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy, Ukraine.

Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of State and Legal Disciplines of Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy, Ukraine.

Elchin Iskenderov, Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, Ukraine.

Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, Ukraine.

Liudmyla Kryzhna, National Academy of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of  Criminology and Penal Law of the National Academy of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.

Oleksandr Sokurenko, Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy, Ukraine.    

PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of the Department of  State and Legal Disciplines of Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy, Ukraine.          

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Published
2021-11-25
How to Cite
Vasylevych, V., Obrusna, S., Iskenderov, E., Kryzhna, L., & Sokurenko, O. (2021). Foreign experience in bullying prevention in schools. Amazonia Investiga, 10(46), 169-175. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2021.46.10.16
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