Integrating Wellbeing and Learning in Schools

Mathew A. White, PhD, is Deputy Dean, International, for the Faculty of Arts, Business, Law, and Economics at the University of Adelaide in Australia, where he is an Associate Professor of Education in the School of Education.

• 1. New Ecological Approaches to Wellbeing Education for School Leaders and Teachers to Combat Wellbeing Learning Poverty: From Emergency Mode to Managing COVID-19’s Impact 2. Foresight, Response and Adaptation: A Critical Review of School Governance and Wellbeing Education 3. Can Appreciative Inquiry Build Sector-Wide School Wellbeing Education Communities of Practice? A Qualitative Study of School Leaders’ Perspectives 4. How Can School Leaders Build Collective Teacher Efficacy for Wellbeing Education: A Qualitative Study 5. A Critical Review of Cooperative Learning Strategies, Wellbeing Education and the Humanities and Social Sciences 6. Where is the students’ voice? A Case Study of Australian Secondary School Students’ Definitions of Wellbeing 7. Reversing Wellbeing Learning Poverty: New Ecological Approaches to Wellbeing Education

"Associate Professor White provides researchers and practitioners with a bounty of ideas for high quality implementation in both mainstream and diverse settings. Adopting an ethically-informed and ecological approach, White makes a compelling case for the intentional inclusion of five core elements to wellbeing education that must be built into planning as we move: teacher training, pedagogy, school leadership, Governance and student voice. All five of the elements presented by White foster collective self-efficacy, an outcome that schools need more than ever in these uncertain times."Professor Lea Waters, AM PhD