An exploratory study on the prevention of school children from violence and abuse

ABSTRACT

Violence and abuse has become a common phenomenon in early childhood education. It is also difficult to erase from the classroom activities and it may have long-lasting effects on children. In this article, the author sees the significant relationship between bullying and emotional abuse among the children in schools. And also violence and abuse is studied from the perspective of the victims. Primary schools which have experienced violence and abuse have been purposively selected. Sixteen children who are the victim of violence and abuse were selected. The school children’s different experiences and challenges were discussed. The study directly focuses on the children’s strategies to reduce violence in schools. The author surprised to receive a wealth of information from the primary school children which will be recommended to the policy makers to make it as a policy to reduce violence and abuse in schools.

KEYWORDS:

• Violence
• abuse
• schools mitigate
• policy

Declaration of interest

The author declares that he has no conflict of interest.

Ethical approval

This research was approved by the Campus Ethics committee. All procedures performed involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

Informed consent

Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.