Prevention models of bullying: What can be done in early childhood education?

Abstract

Bullying is a problem increasingly observable in the classroom. This article presents an analysis of successful bullying prevention projects in different parts of the world. The results show that there are barely prevention projects in the childhood stage. Subsequently, variables that could influence to prevent this problem in the early stage were analyzed and an educational proposal is presented. Influential variables were extracted through a case studies where the technique was the systematic observation in educational contexts and the instruments for data collection were the field notebook and checklists. The results show that bullying prevention in childhood education is related to the management of the following variables: Collaborative work, spatial distribution of the students, conflict resolution, way of reaching an agreement, roles assumed by students and ways of working supports.