Bullying in Secondary Schools: What It Looks Like and How To Manage It

By Ginny Sullivan, Mark Cleary, Keith Sullivan

Book Overview

This book is an important and comprehensive resource.... It should be required reading in every secondary school' - Liz Carnell, Director, Bullying OnlineThis book is a practical guide to dealing with bullying in secondary schools. The authors present what we know about bullying, describe development issues for adolescence and discuss the social context of the school.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761941924
• ISBN13: 9780761941927
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Practical for parents, teachers, principles, & students

The professional collaboration of education specialists and academicians Keith Sullivan, Mark Cleary, and Ginny Sullivan, Bullying In Secondary Schools: What It Looks Like And How To Manage It is an extremely practical guide for parents, teachers, principles, and students on what has become a nationally recognized problem endemic in public school systems across the country. Demonstrating how empowering bystanders, and enlisting effective teacher support, combined with suggestions based on student-centered responses, and a profile of negative as well as positive responses parents may encounter when they confront school personnel about bullying, Bullying In Secondary Schools is strongly recommended and timely reading.