A 'whole-school/community development' approach to preventing and countering bullying: The Erris Anti-Bullying Initiative (2009-2011)

Irish Educational Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 233-249

  Minton, Stephen James ^a   O'Mahoney, Michelle ^b   Conway Walsh, Rose ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Iorras Le Chéile Community Development Project   (Ireland)

Author keywords

anti bullying programmes; school bullying; whole school approach; whole school community development approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879693574     PISSN: 03323315     EISSN: 17474965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03323315.2013.784637     Document Type: Article

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