The role of music in the prevention of school bullying in secondary education: critical review of anti-bullying school programs and implementation of a music education program based on music video

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Published: May 26, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/ppej.30579
Keywords:
school bullying music video secondary education music education prevention music education program
Zoe Dionysiou
Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήμιο
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6258-4900
Vasiliki Maria Katseli
Ionian University
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7692-3184
Alexandra Kyriakou
Ionian University
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0078-0564
Abstract

The phenomenon of school bullying has received great attention in the global educational world, as it is still considered one of the biggest challenges that school children need to overcome today. As the literature indicates, many anti-bullying school programs focus on informing students about the phenomenon and helping them develop social and emotional skills as a means of preventing and limiting violence among members of the school community. The purpose of this study was to develop a music education program for the prevention of the phenomenon of school bullying in secondary education. In the first part, a literature review was conducted on anti-bullying educational programs in order to explore ways in which the arts and music in particular may help the educational community to deal with the problem. Taking into account the critical evaluation of previously implemented bullying prevention and intervention programs, principles and key elements for the implementation of such efforts have emerged. Therefore, an original music education program was developed and implemented by the researchers. The aim of the program was to raise students’ awareness about school bullying. The sample was a group of seven students, classmates from a class of middle school (Gymnasio) Year 3, within the region of the Ionian Islands. All students participated voluntarily, after parental consent. The program lasted for six weeks and was implemented virtually, due to the restrictions of the pandemic (Covid-19). The program was developed around two pre-selected music videos that dealt with the bullying problem. The aim of the program was to inform students about school bullying and help them build socio-emotional skills in relation to self-resilience towards the phenomenon. All conversations through the six-week educational program were recorded, transcribed and analyzed thematically. Results indicate that students reached a deeper understanding of the bullying phenomenon, recognized many characteristics and dimensions of the problem, and gave possible solutions to possible situations. Using the music video as an educational tool helped students gain familiarity with the phenomenon and gave them the opportunity to develop bullying management skills. This educational program, based on two music videos, highlights the need to promote students’ free expression in order to reduce the bullying phenomenon in schools. It also shows that students of secondary education in particular need opportunities within the school environment to express themselves musically and aesthetically, to develop strong peer bonds and good social skills. Moreover, they need to be given a safe space with the presence of their teachers to explore, discuss and improve their self-resilience skills so as to develop a critical stance towards the phenomenon.

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Zoe Dionysiou, Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήμιο

Zoe Dionyssiou is Associate Professor of Music Education at the Department of Music Studies, Ionian University, Greece. She is the Director of the MA Program “Music Pedagogy in Schools and the Community” at Ionian University, academic co-ordinator of the Post-graduate Training Program “Music in Early Childhood Education” (Centre for Life Long Learning, Ionian University) and academic co-ordinator of the Ionian Summer Academy in Music Education. She coordinates a series of community music educational programs organized by Ionian University. She is co-editor of the scientific journal Musical Pedagogics (published by the Greek Society for Music Education). She is co-author in three books (Early Childhood Music Education in the Mediterranean, 2017; For a Sound-Based Education: Listening, Understanding and Co-creating the Soundscape we live in, 2019; A Journey on Rebetiko for young readers and adults, 2022). She is the scientific co-ordinator of two Digital services / Repositories of music pedagogical content (“Euterpe - Digital Music Anthology”, “Singing Greek with the songs of Mariza Koch”) and she has published extensively in scientific journals, edited volumes and conference proceedings. Some of her main research interests include early childhood music education, folk musics in education, interdisciplinary music and art programs, and children’s traditional singing games. Since 2012 she co-ordinates the music education performing group Aneva milo - Kateva rodi, which makes creative use of Greek musical traditions.

Vasiliki Maria Katseli, Ionian University

Vasiliki Maria Katseli is a graduate of the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University in the field of Music Education and Psychology of Music. She has worked as a teacher in the “Music Education Program for Infants and Toddlers” of the Ionian University (2018-2019). She studied piano and advanced music theory at the Conservatory of Arta and was an exchange student at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna (Department of Music and Movement Education / Rhythmics and Music Physiology), as part of the Erasmus program (2019-2020). She worked as an intern at the Institute for Research on Music and Acoustics (IEMA) - Greek Music Information and Documentation Center (2020) and was a member of the Music Education Group of the Ionian University "Aneva milo - Kateva rodi" (2017-2021) and the Community Music Group that operated at the Corfu Penitentiary Institution (2019-2020). Today, she works as a piano and music theory teacher for elementary school children and is pursuing her master's degree in Special Education at Frederick University in Cyprus.

Alexandra Kyriakou, Ionian University

Alexandra Kyriakou has graduated from the Ionian University, Department of Music Studies in the direction of "Pedagogy and Psychology of Music". She has experience in the music education in early years for children aged 1-6 years as she participated in the “Music Education Program for Infants and Toddlers” of the Ionian University. She has also attended seminars and conferences such as: the E.E.M.E Conference 2018 which took place in Thessaloniki, the Scientific Conference of the organization For our children “The Passage to Adolescence for the parent, the doctor, the therapist, the educator and the adolescent”. She is also a former member of the Music Education Team of the Ionian University “Aneva Milo-Kateva Rodi” and has participated in a wide variety of performances through the team.

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