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During 2019, 70 former and present students from the period 1970 - 2019 considered to take legal steps against the municipality because of their experiences of having been subjected to bullying. Several cases exploded in the media.
At this point politicians and school administrators sensed an urgent and radical need of change and decided to enforce a long-term school developmental project collaborating with the University of Stavanger.
Objectives:
Ensure a good and safe learning environment in kindergartens and schools without bullying or other kinds of violations
Engage the whole school and kindergarten community to raise awareness, build capacity, competence and the ability to sustain effective measures for solving and preventing bullying cases
Measures prioritized to early years and parents, children and supporting bodies are directly involved.
The municipality grounded their implementation strategies on the models for change and development from Fixen et al. (2019) and Fullan (2014), former experience and to be sensitive to the organizations and have right timing.
Project phases:
1. Partnership
Establishing the partnerships between politicians, administration, The University of Stavanger and practitioners
2. Preparatory
Meetings, establishing resources, motivational work etc.
3. The Learning environment Project
Institutional identity, good start, wellbeing, handling bullying, organizational development etc.
4. Sustainability
Developed and enrolled a locally customized quality assurance system.
As we speak schools and kindergartens experience considerable lower levels of bullying than the national average
| Please indicate what type of scientific contribution it is | Not applicable |
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| Please also indicate what kind of contribution it is: | Mixed |
