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Cooperation satisfies the individual's need for security and creates situations of sharing and discussion aimed at creative problem solving, improvement of the classroom climate and effective and productive learning. Activity: cooperative learning...

Many of us have experienced in our youth a special encounter with a non-parental adult figure such as an educator, teacher, friend, neighbour, or coach, who provided a point of reference, a role model, and a strong stimulus for personal growth. We speak in thi...

It is a metacognitive technique that enables the learner to become aware of the problem. It is divided into the following steps: 1) Problem identification and analysis: Students are asked to set out what they see as the problems they experience within their...

The buddy operator model involves a small group of classmates actively involved in providing support and assistance to others, with tasks ranging from practical organisational activities to interventions such as emotional support, active listening and counsell...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) published the document 'Life skills education in schools' in 1993, which contains a list of all those skills (abilities, competences) that one needs to learn in order to relate to others and to cope with the problems, pressu...

A useful and effective tool for analysing relationships within a class group is the sociogram. By asking pupils a few questions, it is possible to arrive at a graphic representation that highlights the position of each pupil within the group.  This makes it po...

The concept of emotional intelligence was introduced by Salovey and Mayer (1990) to describe "the ability individuals have to monitor their own feelings and those of others, discriminating between various types of emotion and using this information to channel ...

Goleman (1995) states that the family is the first context in which we learn about emotional life. Emotional education operates not only through the words and actions of parents addressed directly to the child, but also through the models they offer them by sh...

Daily practice shows that the teacher has a primordial way of managing and teaching children's emotions. It is therefore of primordial importance to follow from early childhood, then throughout the course of schooling, the child's development and help him or h...

In Ireland, the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs (EPSEN) Act (GoI, 2004) defined Special educational needs as: … a restriction in the capacity of the person to participate in and benefit from education on account of an enduring physical, s...

There is an increasing awareness among the public and within policy development of the phenomenon of bullying and/or cyberbullying involving school-age CYP (Carrington et al., 2017; Cross, Epstein et al. 2011; Cross, Monks et al. 2011; Murray-Harvey and Slee 2...

In order to benefit from any bullying prevention program or intervention for students with disabilities, accommodations or modifications to school social inclusion and school anti-bullying programmes will be required.  This is particularly important given the ...

Individuals with SEND may require adapted and engaging methods to support them in participating and feeling confident to contribute within school based anti-bullying initiatives. Developing engaging activities and workshops that are supportive in eliciting opi...

Research, however, indicates that programmes related to bullying prevention are most effective when they are located as part of a wider Whole Education Approach (WEA) that is communicated effectively at student, school staff and parent level. What constitutes ...

School is one of the most significant places in the daily experience of children: the amount of hours they spend there, the importance of what they learn there, the quality of the social relationships they build there mean that this place influences the growth...

In order to be able to implement interventions to prevent and/or reduce bullying, parents should first of all: have adequate knowledge and training on the phenomenon that can enable them to recognise and best advise children when they find themselves in dif...

Phase 1 Presentation Presentation of the Young Ambassadors, introduction to the project and to the topics covered by the meeting. Phase 2  Engagement with the students The children's attention is stimulated by asking questions, soliciting and stimulating ...

Ogni giorno i mezzi di comunicazione ci segnalano la sempre più urgente necessità di occuparci di un fenomeno dilagante tra i giovani: il bullismo. La crescita esponenziale di tale fenomeno, in modo particolare nel contesto scolastico, sottolinea l’importanza ...

Negli ultimi decenni si è assistito a un significativo avanzamento della ricerca sul fenomeno del bullismo che coinvolge bambini/e e ragazzi/e.  Affrontare le questioni che influiscono sul benessere dei bambini e dei ragazzi nei contesti scolastici è diventata...