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Author Rigby, Ken.

Title Stop the bullying : a handbook for schools / Ken Rigby
Published Camberwell, Vic. : ACER Press, 2001

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Description vi, 61 pages, : illustrations ; 30 cm
Contents 1. The purpose of the handbook -- 2. Using the handbook -- 3. Why bother? -- UNDERSTANDING BULLYING -- 4. What is bullying? -- 5. Gender, race, disability and social class -- 6. Power inequalities -- 7. When forcefulness is not bullying -- 8. The means of bullying -- 9. Sexual harassment -- 10. Bullying as a dynamic process -- 11. The passive victim -- 12. The resistant victim -- 13. Why some people bully -- 14. Why some people do not bully -- ACTION TO COUNTER BULLYING -- 15. Setting goals -- 16. Making a plan -- 17. Educating the school community -- 18. What it is useful to know about your school -- 19. How to get the facts -- 20. Developing an Anti-Bullying Policy -- 21. What goes into the policy -- 22. What teachers can do about bullying -- 23. Talking with students in class about bullying -- 24. Roles for empowered students -- 25. What students can do -- 26. Accessing useful resources -- 27. Bully/victim cases -- 28. Assessing severity -- 29. Alternative treatments -- 30. Helping the victims -- 31. Helping the bullies -- 32. Working constructively with parents -- 33. Types of schools -- 34. Advice for parents -- 35. A checklist
Summary Designed to help teachers deal more effectively with the problem of bullying in their classroom. Drawing on a wide body of research, it provides educators with strategies to identify and eliminate bullying; suggestions on how to best deal with the bully and the victim, and ideas on how to approach the parents
Notes Spiral binding
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 48-51
Subject Bullying in schools -- Australia -- Prevention -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Bullying in schools -- Australia.
Bullying -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Bullying -- Australia -- Prevention -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Bullying -- Australia.
Bullying.
School discipline -- Australia.
School discipline.
School violence -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals.
Author Turpin, Mignon
Australian Council for Educational Research, publisher
LC no. 00002184
ISBN 0864313535