School Bullying and Violence: Taking Action

Cowie, H. & Jennifer, D. (Co-ordinating team, UK), Chankova, D. & Poshtova, T. (Bulgaria), Deklerck, J. & Deboutte, G. (Belgium), Ertesvåg, S. K. & Samuelsen, A. S. (Norway), O'Moore, M. & Minton, S. J. (Ireland) and Ortega, R. & Sanchez, V. (Spain) © (2006)

School Bullying and Violence: Taking Action

Module C

Unit C1 - Ethical Issues and Children's Rights

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Objectives:

• To be familiar with basic concepts of ethics, law and children’s rights

• To be prepared to promote ethical and lawful behaviour among youth

• To consider strategies for raising students' awareness of moral standards at school

Facilitation skills to be developed through this unit:

Knowledge and understanding of:

• the way to design improvement plans for individual pupils, groups and the school as a whole

• the methods to include pupils’ opinions in any decision about their education

• the way to raise moral standards in a school

Personal qualities and attributes include:

• the ability to influence the ethos in a school and effect and sustain change there

• a good understanding of and ability to model effective behaviour management strategies

• the ability to facilitate and value pupils' opinions about their own education