Paper Series
This series of occasional papers is on issues relevant to the purpose of the Research Initiative. While scholarly in nature, the papers published in this series are pragmatic in purpose: they are to serve practice and policy of school education and the professional and public discourse thereof.
Paper #1
Providing for Student Voice: What? Why? How?
This paper contributes to the larger topic of student well-being by focusing on student voice. The paper engages with three core questions around student voice: What do we mean by “student voice”? Why should we provide for student voice? How do we provide for student voice? To respond to the three questions, the paper draws on research literature from three fields of study: child well-being, children’s participation in decision-making in organizations, and child-centred research methods.
Author: Thomas Falkenberg
Paper #2
Framing Human Well-Being and Well-Becoming:
An Integrated Systems Approach
This paper introduces an approach to conceptualizing human well-being and well-becoming: the WB2-Framework. In the first part of the paper, five core characteristics of the WB2-Framework are discussed. Drawing on these characteristics, the second part of the paper introduces in detail the features of the WB2-Framework approach to well-being and well-becoming. In the conclusion, potential contributions of the approach to the discourse on human, child, and student well-being and well-becoming are suggested.
Author: Thomas Falkenberg