Speaker
Description
Traditional ideas around masculinity often emphasise traits such as dominance and control, leading to cultural expectations that encourage bullying as a tool for asserting power. Our deep transformation work across the states of Delhi, Haryana, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh proactively addresses the issue of bullying by way of working with adolescents, teachers and communities.
While working with adolescents in government schools, we administer our gender-equity curriculum to build their understanding around gender discrimination, bullying and violence. Our facilitators undertake conversations with adolescents, encouraging them to share reasons why they indulge in bullying, offering them space to reflect on the effects on the victims, and building sensitivity around the topic.
Our approaches include teachers’ training to enhance their understanding about how safe school environments can be created. Our efforts have led us to facilitate 45 Child Safeguarding Committees with teachers in schools of Haryana, where adolescents can reach out to register complaints against bullying.
We undertake Participatory Rural Appraisal activities to map locations within villages that they consider unsafe. Village Level Child Protection Committees have also been revived at the village level to strengthen the child protection structures at the grassroots level.
In order to assess the effectiveness of our approaches against bullying, we undertake mixed method assessments delving deeper into the issue. We therefore propose to share in the oral presentation a snapshot of the programmatic approaches we include to counter bullying, key theoretical concepts these approaches are rooted in, and learnings from the assessments measuring effectiveness of these approaches.
Keywords
Socio-Ecological Approaches Prevention Mixed Method
| Please also indicate what kind of contribution it is: | Practitioner experiences |
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| Please indicate what type of scientific contribution it is | Mixed method study |
