Peer observers of bullying

Abstract

"Bystanders in the face of bullying. What they can do according to their classmates", corresponds to a part of a research with a sample of students from a school of Compulsory Secondary Education in the city of Salamanca (Spain). It presents the explanations that students make when faced with bullying situations and the possible responses to reduce and prevent it.
 Among the solutions proposed, we highlight those given to peers, i.e. classmates themselves, who are seen preferably as bystanders who have to make an effort to stop the bullying, isolate the aggressor, help, support, speak up and denounce it.
 In order to carry out the proposed functions and other related ones, university training for teachers is very necessary, so that they in turn can favour pacifying processes in schools, where observers of bullying have to show a positive attitude towards their own classmates, whether they are victims or aggressors, with the intention of acting and preventing conflicts.