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Direct linkCowie, Helen – Children & Society, 2011
In this article, we discuss a range of ways in which children and young people themselves can give adults insights into bullying and how to resolve it. The adoption of peer support within a school can create opportunities for children and young people to be proactive in challenging bullying when they observe it.
Descriptors: Bullying, Young Adults, Children, Social Support Groups
Cowie, Helen; Hutson, Nicky; Oztug, Ozhan; Myers, Carrie – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2008
The research was carried out in four secondary schools, two with a peer support system and two without, and involved a total of 931 pupils (49.5% males and 50.5% females). Participants were aged between 11 and 15 years of age, mean age 12.8 years. The aims were: to compare the perceptions of safety on the part of older and younger pupils in…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Violence, Student Attitudes, Bullying
Hutson, Nicky; Cowie, Helen – Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal for Pastoral Care & Personal-Social Education, 2007
This article opens with a review of current research on peer interventions and their capacity to impact on school climate and bystander behaviour, as well as to meet the aims of fostering altruism. The main focus of the article is a study of an email support group in an all-boys school in the United Kingdom. It was set up in response to an…
Descriptors: Altruism, Bullying, Foreign Countries, Electronic Mail
Cowie, Helen; Oztug, Ozhan – Pastoral Care in Education, 2008
The research reported in this article was carried out in four secondary schools, two with a peer support system (PS) and two without (NPS) and involved a total of 931 pupils, (49.5 per cent males, and 50.5 per cent females). Participants were aged between 11 and 15 years of age, mean age 12.8 years. The aim was to compare the perceptions of safety…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Bullying, School Safety
Peer reviewedCowie, Helen; Naylor, Paul; Chauhan, Lorenzo Talamelli Preeti; Smith, Peter K. – Journal of Adolescence, 2002
Investigates how school peer support systems studied 2 years earlier have evolved. Interviews focused on the respondents' perceptions and experiences of the school's peer support system. Results reveal widespread support for the systems and a strong sense that both teachers and peer supporters were increasingly confident about the value of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Groups, Peer Relationship, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedCowie, Helen; Olafsson, Ragnar – School Psychology International, 2000
Examines the impact of a peer support service as an intervention to counteract bullying in a high school. Results indicate the intervention had no overall effect on levels of bullying in the school or on the likelihood that peers would intervene to help. However, interviews indicated that peer helpers and some victims were helped by the…
Descriptors: Bullying, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools
Peer reviewedCowie, Helen – Educational Research and Evaluation (An International Journal on Theory and Practice), 1998
The experiences and perceptions of 42 young people in two elementary and seven secondary schools in the United Kingdom who volunteered and were trained to help victims of bullying by participating in peer-support schemes and perceptions of 10 teachers were studied. Benefits and disadvantages that these students describe are discussed in light of…
Descriptors: Bullying, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
