A Research Initiative

Well-Being & Well-Becoming in Schools in Canada

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COVID-19

The Well-Being & Well-Becoming in Schools in Canada Research Initiative brings to you a collection of readings and resources that can help educators promote teacher and student mental health and well-being during the pandemic. In this page, you can also find helpful links to organizations and institutions which have also put similar initiatives in place, and the contacts of scholars who are willing to provide talks for professional development in the area of teacher and student well-being.

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COVID-19

Podcast

What kind of educator does the world need today?

May 17, 2021

Visit our COVID-19 resources section to read about a reimagination of teacher education in post-pandemic Canada, putting equity at the heart of education responses.

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Schools of Well-Being

January 8, 2021

Click here to listen to the complete Spring and Summer seasons of the Schools of Well-Being podcast.

Research

Research

Resources

On Conceptualizing Child Well-Being: Drawing on Disciplinary Understandings of Childhood.

March 16, 2021

In this article, Dr. Thomas Falkenberg and Heather Krepski discuss questions of whether, and in what way, the well-being of children should be differently conceptualized than that of adults. Visit our Theoretical and Conceptual Research page to find out more.

Paper Series

January 24, 2021

Occasional papers is on issues relevant to the purpose of the Research Initiative, including practice and policy of school education and the professional and public discourse.

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What we do

Podcasts

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The Schools of Well-Being podcast invites you to listen to conversations with fellow researchers and academics who explain the schools of thought that influence what they think well-being and well-becoming means and how it connects to schools, students, teachers, educational leaders, and communities. 

This page provides information on research and scholarship of relevance to the work undertaken by members of the Research Initiative on Well-Being and Well-Becoming in Schools in Canada and others.

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Resources

Useful Material

Through its work, the Research Initiative wants to contribute to a productive public discourse on the role of well-being and well-becoming in school education. This section provides different kinds of resources in support of such a productive public discourse.

Due to COVID-19 a conference on well-being and well-becoming in schools planned for Fall 2020 has been moved to Fall 2021.

More details to come. 

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