Acting Against Bullying: Using Drama and Peer Teaching to Reduce Bullying (continued)

All the evidence shows that the three keys to Acting Against Bullying are skilled management of structured drama work; trust in students’ peer teaching ability and their ability to put what they have learned through experience into mature practice; and strong support by system and school administrations. With these three factors, any school can implement it.

Details of both the drama program and school organisation, together with our bibliography, further results and statistics, can be found in our book Cooling Conflict.

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