European Project Sonet-Bull combine modern pedagogic approaches (e-learning and peer learning) with widely used technological tools (Internet, social networks, smartphones) to provide immediate and continued support to all the actors involved in contrasting school bullying.
The phenomenon is on the rise especially in schools, but cases often do not emerge notwithstanding the violence of bullying – psychological, verbal or physical – has negative effects on victims, bullies, other student witnesses and the entire class.
The most efficient methods to contrast the phenomenon are based on a cooperative method that involves the entire scholastic community. This methodology entails the implementation of an anti-bullying policy with specific rules, shared by the entire school staff, as well as students and their families. The methodology must include immediate measures that tackle both the victim’s and the bully’s issues. In order to be efficient, such a strategy requires a profound knowledge of the phenomenon and its consequences, as well as values and objectives that are shared by teachers, students and families.
The project’s training programme, which begins on Saturday, October 24, is directed to teachers, headmasters, educators, parents and psychologists who operate in schools. It aims to provide all of these actors with better knowledge of the phenomenon and the strategies necessary to contrast it thanks to a collaborative approach within the school.
The course is implemented in collaboration with Psy+, which works to promote the use of best practices in psychology and psychotherapy.
Patrizia Perrone from Psy+ explains why it is important to approach this by involving all the actors.
Project Sonet-Bull aims to act on dynamics internal to the school via a multidimensional and collaborative approach that involves the entire school community. The Sonet-Bull Platform, launched with the training programme is an open resource for the school community at large and beyond to increase awareness on this phenomenon and develop a safe network of all the actors involved in preventing and contrasting bullying, along with a vast network of shared experiences.
