Active and socially constructive methodology to fight against sexual, homophobic and ethnic bullying in schools - MABE

with financial support from the EU's Daphne Programme – ref. JLS/2008/DAP3/AG/1340

In the last few years in Europe, numerous episodes of bullying have sprung up in the news creating serious social alarm.

Pre-adolescents and adolescents belonging to enlarged socio-cultural groups are more and more significantly involved in bullying and the phenomenon is in a continuous state of evolution. Whereas in the past bullying almost exclusively involved young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, today it is dangerously and indistinctively advancing in other social classes.

The reason for this evolution is presumably to be linked to the rasing of new social variables such as: cultural diveristy – due to the growing phenomenon of immigration –, differences in sexual orientation, disability and other forms of diversity which, becoming stereotypes, provide fertile ground for phenomena of violence and juvenile deviance.

Because of this situation, the project “Active and socially constructive methodology to fight against sexual, homophobic and ethnic bullying in schools”, co-funded by the European Union in the framework of the Daphne Project, intends to involve all members of the school community along with teachers and students. The aim of the project is to design and put into practice shared paths for bullying prevention, directed at fighting degeneration into such behaviour by intervening in appropriate and effective manner whenever needed.