Prevention of undesired student behaviours in current school practice: Legal and curricular framework

Abstract

The school, as the institution whose basic activity is education, has an important role in preventing the emergence of undesired and stimulating desired forms of behaviour of the students. In the realization of this role it relies on legal and curricular documents which define the direction of the preventing acting of school. Starting from this, the article describes and analyses laws and other legal documents in the field of education which cover in more detail the issues of violence prevention, as well as curricular documents which are developed on the school level. The obtained results show that legal provisions should define the issues of the prevention of undesirable behaviours of students more clearly. The analysis of the curricular documents showed that the planned preventive measures and activities are not sufficiently accorded with the needs of different categories of students, as well as the fact that important participants in the educational process are not sufficiently included in the process of planning and realization of the preventive activities of the school.

Keywords

• undesirable student behaviours
• prevention of undesired behaviours
• preventive role of the school
• legal and curricular bases for undesirable behaviour prevention