This is a highly practical handbook for addressing bullying in schools, updated to include new issues such as promoting more positive and effective bystander behaviour among students and advice on how staff in schools can examine more adequately their own views on alternative approaches to bullying. It contains the most up-to-date references to bullying in schools and an account of recent resources available for assisting Australian schools in addressing the problem of bullying.
A recent review in Social Spectrum (2002) described Stop the Bullying as follows:
‘Excellent professional development sessions could be based on almost every aspect of this book to tease out strategies that can be implemented to support policies being enforced. With the work that Ken Rigby has published, schools should now have an effective framework around which to place appropriate interventions to reduce bullying.'
This is sequel to Professor Rigby's earlier book: Bullying
in Schools and What to do about it. published by ACER in 1996 in Australia
and subsequently in England and in North America. It takes into account findings
from the growing body of research literature into bullying, especially over
the last five years to which the author has made numerous
contributions.
Features of the book.
The book has been uniquely designed so that members of the school community
can all take part in discovering what is needed to stop bullying in schools
and decide what is best for their school to do.
Each page of the book provides advice and suggestions on a different aspect
of the task of reducing bullying in schools.
Pages that are of particular interest to individuals and to study groups - of
teachers and of parents - may be copied and distributed so that everyone can
to help in developing a Whole School response to bullying.
A list of the contents of the book may be inspected. You may access two of the specimen pages