Literature for the prevention of bullying in the early stages of education

Abstract

Bullying is a serious social and health problem for children, and schools should be involved from the beginning of schooling in its prevention and intervention. Picture books provide textual and visual narratives that reflect bullying behaviours. Children’s literature is a suitable vehicle for learning about and reflecting on different social problems. The first step is to carry out a content analysis of the literary work to find out how it reflects the situation and what cognitive, emotional and behavioural variables are reflected in the narrative. The objective of this paper is to provide a tool for collecting information that can be used to carry out a content analysis of an album on bullying. The analysis of five quality albums based on the proposed instrument is presented.