For children only? Effects of the KiVa antibullying program on teachers

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 851-859

  Ahtola, Annarilla ^a   Haataja, Anne ^a   Kärnä, Antti ^a   Poskiparta, Elisa ^a   Salmivalli, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bullying; Learning by teaching; Prevention; Teacher attitudes; Teacher behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861653596     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2012.03.006     Document Type: Article

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