Building safe schools for children with rights.

Over the past years, violence in schools has occurred with incidents ranging from minor discipline problems, to verbal and physical threats. While an understanding of the phenomenon of violence in schools has progressed in various disciplines, a significant gap on the legal framework and the enforcement of law in schools to guarantee a safe educational environment remains. The project intends to provide a better understanding of how law influences and might effectively be modified to reduce violence in schools in a given European context. The objective is to disseminate country reports on best practices written by researchers in education law and policy through an on-line video tutorial, an interactive e-book, a hard copy publication (comparative analysis, synthesis report) about the legal obligation to prevent violence in school as an aspect of education policies to be developed in the best interests of the child, and through an international conference. The ultimate objective is to make violence in schools regarded as a preventable public problem instead of being inevitable.

Keywords:CHILDREN'S RIGHTS, SCHOOLS

Disciplines:Education curriculum, Education systems, General pedagogical and educational sciences, Specialist studies in education, Other pedagogical and educational sciences