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Download full textClaire Hamshire; Mimi Benjamin; Alan Soong Swee Kit – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2025
The purpose of this study was to explore how peer support schemes can be used to facilitate meaningful relationships and a sense of belonging for underrepresented students. Using three case studies, the study explored and compared peer support leaders' narratives about their experiences at three universities: one in the United Kingdom (UK), one in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Minority Group Students, Sense of Belonging
Direct linkBoulton, Michael John – Pastoral Care in Education, 2014
Bullying affects a substantial proportion of school pupils, and peer counselling services have been established to help tackle this problem. The present study aimed to further the understanding of why affected pupils do or do not choose to utilise this form of social support. Pupils ("N" = 99, aged 12-16 years) from the UK were asked…
Descriptors: High School Students, Bullying, Peer Counseling, Foreign Countries
O'Hara, Donna – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2011
Research suggests that peer mentoring can positively impact on emotional literacy competencies. This study explored the effects of peer mentoring on the emotional literacy competencies of Year 7 peer mentees using a quasi-experimental pre-test and post-test control group design. Results supported the hypothesis that peer mentoring has a positive…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Emotional Intelligence, Mentors, Correlation
Peer reviewedDolton, Peter; And Others – Education Economics, 1994
Evaluates a peer counseling program aimed at helping first-year students use computers in the University of Newcastle economics department. The scheme has not harmed students' abilities to use computers and, in some cases, has improved their skill. The scheme is inexpensive and provides significant potential savings in staff and hardware costs.…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Economics Education, Efficiency, Foreign Countries
Boulton, Michael J. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2005
Individual interviews to solicit secondary school pupils' (N=99) views of the peer counselling for bullying service in their own school, with a focus on the issue of social support for bullying-related problems, were conducted. Three themes were addressed: (1) willingness to use the service relative to other potential sources of support, (2)…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, School Counseling, Bullying, Student Attitudes
Peer reviewedCartwright, Netta – Journal for a Just and Caring Education, 1995
In recent years, there has been much research on bullying in the United Kingdom. In 1990, the author, a school counselor and teacher, organized an antibullying workshop at a large secondary school. Since then, the school has been developing a schoolwide antibullying policy comprising various strategies, including an antibullying contract and a…
Descriptors: Bullying, Change Strategies, Discipline Policy, Foreign Countries
