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Running head: PROMISING PRACTICES 1
POLICIES AND PROMISING PRACTICES TO COMBAT BULLYING IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
by
Edgar Melik-Stepanyan
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
May 2014
Copyright 2014 Edgar Melik-Stepanyan
Object Description
| Title | Policies and promising practices to combat bullying in secondary schools |
| Author | Melik-Stepanyan, Edgar |
| Author email | melik1515@hotmail.com;emelik-stepanyan@gusd.net |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2014-04-25 |
| Date submitted | 2014-04-25 |
| Date approved | 2014-04-28 |
| Restricted until | 2014-04-28 |
| Date published | 2014-04-28 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Stowe, Kathy |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Mora-Flores, Eugenia Ahmadi, Shafiqa |
| Abstract | The aim of this study was to research and analyze how schools use policies and promising practices to combat bullying. A middle school in Southern California was identified for having promising practices that were implemented and sustained to support an anti‐bullying culture. Nine participants, the principal of the middle school, two assistant principals, two parents of students at the school, a counselor and three teachers, were interviewed, and observations were conducted in order to gain insights into the anti‐bullying culture of the school. The process of data analysis followed the collection of the interviews and process of observations, with the research revealing key systems and structures that were essential in the school having an anti‐bullying culture. Structures included whole‐school approaches that included ongoing training and implementation of strategies to reduce bullying problems in a school, as well as a focus on professional development to the staff on the basic understandings of bullying and the skills needed to intervene appropriately in bullying behaviors. Systems included the collaborative leadership at the school among the administration, teachers, parents, and students, to eliminate bullying, and the use of time, as the middle school focused on caring for the mental health of students both inside and outside of the classroom. The results of the study had implications for district and school administrators in creating policies and establishing school‐wide practices to combat bullying and for future practice in school’s creating an anti‐bullying culture. This study, which used Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory of development as a theoretical foundation, increased the understanding of the systems and structure that allow for an anti‐bullying culture in schools, adding to the literature base linking the systems, structures and professional development of a school to an anti‐bullying culture. |
| Keyword | bullying |
| Language | English |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Melik-Stepanyan, Edgar |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-MelikStepa-2421.pdf |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume8/etd-MelikStepa-2421.pdf |
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| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | Running head: PROMISING PRACTICES 1 POLICIES AND PROMISING PRACTICES TO COMBAT BULLYING IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS by Edgar Melik-Stepanyan A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION May 2014 Copyright 2014 Edgar Melik-Stepanyan |
