Acting Against Bullying is a successful, evidence-based, anti-bullying program developed by Griffith University over ten years in partnership with the New South Wales Department of Education and Training and Education Queensland.
It is a whole school program designed to empower students at every level from upper secondary to lower primary to manage bullying successfully.
By the end of the operation of the program in a school, the aim is for every member of the school community to understand the nature and consequences of bullying and to feel competent to deal with the manifestations of bullying in their school.The AAB program aims to equip school students with strategies to prevent or address bullying though knowledge and practical skills; to provide teachers with the professional development necessary to support the students; to investigate ways of utilising school policy and administrative structures to help support the process; and over the life of the program to begin to change the cultures of schools by helping the teachers and students to recognise and reduce the power imbalances that provoke or provide an environment for bullying.
Welcome to Bully Free TV. How kids can be Bully Free
About the program
Professor Bruce BurtonResearch project
- ARC Linkage (2002-2004), Countering the bullies