ABSTRACT

The Nature of School Bullying provides a unique world-wide perspective on how different countries have conceptualized the issue of school bullying, what information has been gathered, and what interventions have been carried out. Written and compiled by well known experts in the field, it provides a concise summary of the current state of knowledge of school bullying in nineteen different countries, including:
* demographic details
* definitions of bullying
* the nature and types of school bullying
* descriptive statistics about bullying
* initiatives and interventions.
The Nature of School Bullying provides an authoritative resource for anyone interested in ways in which this problem is being tackled on a global scale. It will be invaluable for teachers, educational policy makers, researchers, and all those concerned with understanding school bullying and finding ways of dealing with it.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part I|271 pages

Europe

chapter 1|21 pages

Sweden

chapter 2|21 pages

Norway

chapter 3|7 pages

Denmark

chapter 4|12 pages

Finland

chapter 5|23 pages

England and Wales

chapter 6|21 pages

Scotland

chapter 7|16 pages

Ireland

chapter 10|17 pages

Spain

chapter 11|13 pages

Portugal

chapter 12|18 pages

Belgium

chapter 13|19 pages

The Netherlands

chapter 14|26 pages

Germany

chapter 15|14 pages

Switzerland

chapter 16|12 pages

Poland

part II|30 pages

North America

part III|49 pages

Pacific Rim

chapter 19|15 pages

Japan

chapter 20|16 pages

Australia

chapter 21|16 pages

Aotearoa/New Zealand

part IV|19 pages

The developing world

chapter 22|17 pages

The developing world