Bullying: an analysis from the perspective of human rights, target groups and interventions

In: The International Journal of Children's Rights
Authors: Abraham Magendzo Kolstrein a) and María Isabel Toledo Jofré b)
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  • a) Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Santiago, Chile, Email: abrahammagendzo@gmail.com
  • b) Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, Email: maria.toledo@udp.cl
Online Publication Date:
01 Jan 2013
In:
Volume 21: Issue 1
Article Type:
Research Article
Pages:
46–58
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/157181812X637136
Keywords:
bullying; homophobic; bullying; gender; xenophobic bullying; intervention school violence; human rights

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This article takes a human rights approach to analysing the phenomenon of school bullying and specifies which international human rights instruments are applicable to this violent problem. The article then moves to a discussion of groups targeted by bullying, focusing on homophobic-, gender- and xenophobic-based bullying as well as bullying linked to special educational needs (disabilities) and socioeconomic status. The second part of the article presents the principles behind bullying interventions through a human rights perspective. Anti-bullying interventions are analysed along with the necessary curricular considerations, including pedagogy, didactic principles and evaluation.

In:
The International Journal of Children's Rights
E-ISSN:
1571-8182
Print ISSN:
0927-5568
Publisher:
Brill
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