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Professional Cultures in Schools With High and Low Rates of Bullying

Year: 2004

Type: article

Abstract: Most research on bullying in schools has focussed on characteristics of bullies or victims, and their families. Relatively little has investigated the school's contribution to pupil bullying. Information was obtained from teachers in 22 Norwegian primary schools on bullying and 3 aspects of professional culture. The school highest in bullying had significantly worse scores on all professional culture variables than the school lowest on bullying. The results are discussed with reference to the possibility that improvement in professional culture may contribute to less bullying and overall improvement in behaviour. In turn, these may be prerequisites for improvement in academic standards.

Source: School Effectiveness and School Improvement

DOI: 10.1080/09243450512331383202

Authors: Erling Roland, David Galloway

Institutions: University of Stavanger, Durham University

Language: English

Topic: Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1982050596

FWCI: 1.391

Cites: 30

Cited by: 65

Related to: 10