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Nowadays, high-quality education must prepare our young people for future work and for life.  \nResearch shows that relationship styles learnt at school tend to be repeated later in life. Students who learn how to become popular and achieve their goals through desirable and prosocial behaviours continue to behave in a prosocial way in the work environment, within intimate relationships, with family members and other people in general. Children who learn antisocial behaviours during the school years tend to behave in an antisocial way in other contexts and are at increased risk of engaging in offending actions and behaviours later in life. Children who are victimised at school are at risk of associated negative consequences  \nsuch as depression, low self-esteem and social impairment (Farrington, Lösel, Ttofi & Theodorakis, 2012).  \nTherefore, promotion of a positive school climate and prevention of problem behaviours must be included among the most important objectives of schools. Crucially, a positive school environment is related to a student’s academic achievement, as well as success in life.  \nWhat is the theory behind the promotion of a positive school climate?  \nResearch into positive school climates has frequently been approached from an ecological and systemic theory based on Bronfenbrenner (1994), where individuals are analysed indifferent environments that create an interconnected system of elements. According to this theory, students influence proximal environments (such as their families or teachers) and distant environments (such as their parents’work or political situation). At the same time, different proximal and distant environments influence young people. There is also an interaction among different environments. For example, students interact with their peers, teachers and families; families interact with teachers; teachers interact with each other and with teachers in other schools  \nor even with local governments. There is a complex system of interpersonal and social relationships, and small changes in one part of the system might cause big changes in a different part of the system. Thus, promotion of a positive school climate and prevention of antisocial behaviours needs to be understood from a holistic, systemic and ecological approach (Ortega-Ruiz, Del Rey & Casas, 2013). All these systems and environments need to work together to promote pro-sociality and prevent antisocial behaviours. For example, governments should issue educational laws and guidance focused on promoting a positive school climate; schools should then integrate these in their policy and practice; and all the members of the school community, including teachers, parents and students, should work together to achieve a positive school climate.  \nAnother theoretical approach looks at the impact on school climate when problem behaviours are learnt as part of group norms. Research on bullying as a group process has been especially revealing. According to this approach, some children perpetrate bullying to achieve high social status. Bullying is a group process (Salmivalli, 2010) and bystanders might either defend the victim, or reinforce and follow the perpetrator. If bystanders reinforce the perpetrator, some students might perceive aggressive behaviours as a way to gain popularity or achieve their goals.  \nEducation brief-Promoting a positive school climate continued  \nMoreover, according to social learning theories, behaviours learnt in one social context can be transferred ","cbCaibaEkckke0QL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibaEkckke0QL","pdf",872247,"English","# What is a positive school climate?\n## Why academic skills are not enough\n# The theory behind promoting a positive school climate\n## Ecological and systemic approach\n## Group norms and bullying as a process\n## Social learning and transfer of behaviour\n# Behaviours that negatively impact a positive school climate\n## Harmful problem behaviours overview\n## Bullying\n## Cyberbullying","[{\"question\":\"What factors make up a positive school climate?\",\"answer\":\"A positive school climate combines personal and contextual factors that increase prosocial relationships among students while decreasing problem behaviours.\"},{\"question\":\"How does ecological and systemic theory explain changes in school climate?\",\"answer\":\"Students influence proximal and distant environments (e.g., families, teachers, wider political or work situations), and these environments interact. 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