| Project title: | Countering Aggressions and Violence Through Education |
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| Project type: | Developmental Crime Prevention |
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| Researchers/contact: | Gary Shaw |
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| Commencement date: | 1992 |
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| Location: | VIC |
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| Funding body/institution: | Australian Violence Prevention Award 1995 |
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| Description of the study: | This is a curriculum approach aimed at preventing violence in primary and secondary schools. The teaching strategies are designed to engender negotiation and communication skills, enhance self-image and facilitate a sense of equality between students regardless of gender, race or class. Activities within this curriculum approach draw upon student experience and understanding of violence. Students are taken through a series of teaching and learning exercises that challenge the attitudes, beliefs and practices that lead to violence in daily life. The emphasis is on empowering students to take responsibility for their own actions and encouraging students through practical application, to use strategies such as assertiveness rather than aggression to achieve personal power in relationships. |
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| Description of the outcomes: | Teachers are found to be very supportive of the program seeing it as being easy to implement and well received by the students. |
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| Evaluation: | Systematic process evaluations have been carried out and the results are noted in the description of outcomes. |
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