Preventing and confronting school bullying : a comparative study of two national programmes in Norway.
Original version
Stephens, P. (2011) Preventing and confronting school bullying : a comparative study of two national programmes in Norway. British Educational Research Journal, 37(3) pp. 381-404 10.1080/01411921003692868Abstract
Efforts to prevent and curb school bullying have resulted in a proliferation of anti-school-bullying
programmes, many based on intuitive appeal rather than systematic evidence. This article presents
a comparative analysis of two Norwegian programmes whose developers have demonstrated the effectiveness
of their interventions: the Olweus Programme and the Zero Programme. By probing the
key components of these programmes, the article provides schools with information about two
prominent anti-school-bullying programmes that, to varying degrees, and mainly based on quantitative
evaluations, have been found to work. In weighing up the potential of lesson drawing (both
nationally and cross-nationally), schools will attach significance to the probability of positive effects,
to issues concerning intensity of implementation, and to the prospect of adapting programme content
to school culture and school-specific problems. It is important too that schools keep up to date
with current research in the field, including studies that offer qualitative insights.
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This is an electronic copy of an article originally published by Taylor & Francis; see DOI: 10.1080/01411921003692868.