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10 - Peer support in England, Japan and South Korea

from Part II - Direct cross-national data comparisons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

By
Helen Cowie  and
Alana James
Edited by
Peter K. Smith ,
Keumjoo Kwak  and
Yuichi Toda
Peter K. Smith
Affiliation:
Goldsmiths, University of London
Keumjoo Kwak
Affiliation:
Seoul National University
Yuichi Toda
Affiliation:
Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan
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Summary

This chapter overviews the nature of peer support as it is currently practised in English, Japanese and South Korean schools. It outlines the extent and varieties of peer support used in the three countries individually using the available research evidence. How peer support methods may be adapted to tackle the different forms of bullying which are present in the three nations is then explored. Peer support can be used to nurture a positive climate in the whole school, allay group fears and anxieties, and allay individual fears and anxieties. For example, schools in England have cited dealing with bullying amongst whole-school aimed reasons for peer support, bullying is one of the concerns that can be met in Japanese Q&A Handout systems, and in South Korea peer counselling has been used to support pupils with bullying related difficulties. Finally, the chapter takes a cross-cultural perspective on peer support as an anti-bullying approach, and considers the importance of readiness within schools and educational systems for peer support systems to take root and flourish. Peer support is not prescriptive and the ways in which schemes are used as anti-bullying approaches are not uniform across, or within, the three countries.
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School Bullying in Different Cultures
Eastern and Western Perspectives
 , pp. 189 - 208
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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