Stručni rad
EVALUATION OF UNICEF BULLYING PREVENTION PROGRAMME EFFICIENCY
Martina Tomić-Latinac
; Ured UNICEF-a za Hrvatsku, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Anela Nikčević-Milković
orcid.org/0000-0001-6216-456X
; Učiteljski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Odsjek za učiteljski studij u Gospiću, Gospić, Hrvatska
Sažetak
UNICEF Office for Croatia has been implementing a bullying prevention project entitled For a safe and encouraging environment in schools for five years. In accordance with the adopted Criteria of quality assurance and sustainability, schools which have successfully implemented all seven steps of UNICEF programme For a safe and encouraging environment in schools are every three years awarded a renewal/confirmation of their Violence-Free status. By adopting the mentioned criteria, the schools made a commitment to continuously keep the established values and activities aimed at prevention and reaction to bullying.
Within the preparation of the first 39 schools from all over Croatia (which were awarded the Violence-Free status in the school year 2004/2005) a research on bullying was conducted with the aim of monitoring the efficiency of the programme. The research included an accidental sample of 4 939 students and 1 205 teachers, as well as a convenient sample of 1 931 parents from 39 schools.
The results obtained in 2008, in comparison to the results from the initial research conducted in 2004 and the results by an independent evaluation from 2005, suggest that in schools participating in the bullying prevention programme a level of the teacher's competence toward bullying has risen and is maintained, and the number of teachers feeling helpless and confused has lowered. Furthermore, the results indicate that in these schools all forms of discrimination and violence are recognized, that there are elements of a protective network helping to suppress bullying and that measurable changes have been achieved. According to children's self-statements, the number of incidents of abusive behaviour has been reduced by half. In schools participating in the project, more than 50% of parents are acquainted with the activities implemented by the school with the aim of bullying prevention, the majority of parents consider that the school is seriously approaching the problem of bullying and they evaluate the cooperation with the school as a good one.
Ključne riječi
prevention; bullying; efficiency evaluation
Hrčak ID:
47826
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Datum izdavanja:
30.1.2010.
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