Effectiveness of Creative Pedagogy in Enhancing the Knowledge and Awareness on Bullying amongst Secondary School Students

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10.2991/acpch-17.2018.58How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Creative and Fun Pedagogy, bullying behavior, knowledge and awareness of bullying behavior, 2BS program.

Abstract

Previous research found that there are a correlation between the level of knowledge on bullying behavior and the level of bullying. Therefore, the Program 2BS: I'm a Buddy not a Bully, has been planned and implemented with the aim to enhance the knowledge and awareness on bullying among students. In addition, the program aims to improve the awareness on the values of diversity. Creative and fun pedagogy has been used as an approach to achieve the objectives of this program. Within this program, elements from group counseling and basic counseling skills, such as active listening, asking question, interpretation and empathizing, are embedded with aim of helping counselors to explore bullying issues among students. A total of 500 students from different schools orientation (daily, academic, religious and sport) have been engaged in the experimental research. The results showed a significant increase in knowledge and awareness of bullying behavior among students who participate in this program. The findings from interviews found students are very excited and can better understand the content of which is carried out using this creative pedagogy approach. Also, this program helped them to appreciate the universal values and the diversity among students

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Jamalsafri Saibon
AU  - Syed Mohamad Syed Abdullah
AU  - Amelia Leong Chiew Har
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