ABSTRACT
This chapter is designed to highlight some of the main issues on school violence/bullying in several developing countries. The researchers in the developing countries concerned share with their counterparts in industrialised countries an awareness of the importance of the issue of bullying and school violence, particularly its impact on schooling and society in general. However, the amount of information available on this subject in these countries is relatively scarce, in particular the research information on bullying. The methods employed by these countries to analyse the subject do not rely so much on the quantitative analysis of data, as is the case of some industrialising countries whose studies appear in the preceding chapters of this book. One also has to be careful not to generalise the findings and observations of the current studies to the school violence and bullying issues of all other developing countries. Given these limitations of the study, I will attempt to synthesise the main findings reported from the studies conducted in a number of developing countries, and to highlight some critical issues of bullying in school faced by young people in the light of the sociocultural realities and backgrounds of their countries.
