Prevention of school bullying as a factor in the safety of the educational environment

Context and relevance. School bullying is a significant factor in violating the safety of the educational environment. The article presents the features of modern school bullying, analyzes its main causes. Examples of the development and implementation of bullying prevention programs show their capabilities to improve the safety of the school educational environment. Objective. To analyze modern foreign means of preventing school bullying as a factor in the safety of the educational environment. Hypothesis. Prevention of bullying as a factor in the safety of the educational environment is implemented within the framework of programs for the development of communicative competence and emotional self-regulation of students, improvement of the psychological climate and organizational conditions of school functioning. Comprehensive programs covering all participants in the school educational process are most effective. Theoretical basis. The analysis presented in the article is based on foreign data published from 2021 to 2025 on the development and application of school bullying prevention programs as a means of improving the safety of the educational environment. Results. Anti-bullying programs tested in foreign schools are primarily aimed at correcting personal and group factors that contribute to the development of teenage bullying, which poses a threat to the safety of the educational environment. Preventive projects with varying degrees of success solve the problems of increasing the socio-psychological competence of participants in the school educational process, reducing bullying and victimization, improving the psychological climate, and developing a prosocial position in interpersonal relationships among students. Conclusions. The psychological safety of the educational environment can be significantly increased with the help of systematic measures to prevent school bullying, which are a set of organizational and psychological-pedagogical means of harmonizing the system of interaction of all its participants, mainly teachers, students and their parents.

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