Impeding Bullying: Creating Peaceful Classrooms Interculturally Internationally

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Abstract

Harassment, intimidation, bullying and teasing (HIBT) is a major international problem. This paper details a twenty-year collaboration among professors, novice researchers, school administrators, teachers and tolerance center staff in the U.S.A. with their counterparts in Indonesia to support the development and implementation of an anti-bullying program designed to foster the peaceful classroom. This multi-faceted anti-HIBT program has been proven successful in two countries in multiple diverse venues for grades pre-school through high school, in three languages, with a variety of government standards and a plethora of curricula.

Authors

• Blythe F. Hinitz, The College of New Jersey

• Margaret E. Shore, Sekolahku MySchool

• Harlene Lichter Galen, The College of New Jersey