Bullying has been widely studied across the world and is recognized as a serious social issue associated with a range of short -and long- term academic, physical health, mental health, interpersonal, behavioral, and psycho social problems among the youth who are victims of bullying Bullying is a form of proactive or reactive aggressive behavior inflicted by one or more individuals with intention to cause harm or discomfort to another individual. Bullying can take overt or covert forms of physical, verbal, relational, or cyber aggression and is generally differentiated from other types of peer-to-peer aggression based on the intentionality and repetitiveness of the behavior and the imbalance of power between the perpetrator and the victim. Unfortunately, being a victim of bullying is not uncommon. Approximately 15%-30% of youth experience bullying victimization; however, estimates vary by type of bullying victimization, geographic location, and ways in which bullying is defined and measured.
So, because of the importance of the phenomenon of school violence, we organized a bullying prevention program, in the context of implementation of the European program: Europe’s Anti-bullying Campaign, “e-abc”, which is is organized by the Daphne III program and “THE SMILE OF THE CHILD”, which is a non-profit voluntary Organization, in Greece. The Daphne III program aims to contribute to the protection of children, young people and women against all forms of violence and attain a high level of health protection, well-being and social cohesion. Its specific objective is to contribute to the prevention of violence, and the fight against all forms of it, whether they occur in the public or the private domain, including sexual exploitation and trafficking of human beings. It aims to take preventive measures and provide support and protection for victims and groups at risk. The European Parliament and the European Council adopted a Decision establishing the specific program Daphne III as part of the General Program “Fundamental Rights and Justice”.
We created animated videos which were based on the Interactive Training Tool of the “e-abc” program. The purpose of showing these videos is the substantial understanding from behalf of students of the Bullying phenomenon through their direct participation. We created two main stories-videos, one of which is presenting an incident of physical, psychological and verbal violence, while the other one deals with an incident of cyber bullying. In both videos we have the possibility to attend the story from the viewpoint of all three protagonists: the child who bullies the bullied child and the observer. The user of the videos has the possibility to choose each time the view point from which he/she wishes to attend the story, while at the same time there is the possibility to choose the progress of the story depending on the “protagonists’ reactions” which are provided.
So, because of the importance of the phenomenon of school violence, we organized a bullying prevention program, in the context of implementation of the European program: Europe’s Anti-bullying Campaign, “e-abc”, which is is organized by the Daphne III program and “THE SMILE OF THE CHILD”, which is a non-profit voluntary Organization, in Greece. The Daphne III program aims to contribute to the protection of children, young people and women against all forms of violence and attain a high level of health protection, well-being and social cohesion. Its specific objective is to contribute to the prevention of violence, and the fight against all forms of it, whether they occur in the public or the private domain, including sexual exploitation and trafficking of human beings. It aims to take preventive measures and provide support and protection for victims and groups at risk. The European Parliament and the European Council adopted a Decision establishing the specific program Daphne III as part of the General Program “Fundamental Rights and Justice”.
We created animated videos which were based on the Interactive Training Tool of the “e-abc” program. The purpose of showing these videos is the substantial understanding from behalf of students of the Bullying phenomenon through their direct participation. We created two main stories-videos, one of which is presenting an incident of physical, psychological and verbal violence, while the other one deals with an incident of cyber bullying. In both videos we have the possibility to attend the story from the viewpoint of all three protagonists: the child who bullies the bullied child and the observer. The user of the videos has the possibility to choose each time the view point from which he/she wishes to attend the story, while at the same time there is the possibility to choose the progress of the story depending on the “protagonists’ reactions” which are provided.