Well-Being in Schools Podcast
The Well-Being in Schools Podcast is a series of six episodes on the idea of making school education primarily about student well-being and the questions that such an undertaking raises.
Series Producer: Sarah Schur
Graphics by: Kyungdeok Park
Theme Music created and performed by: John Himes
Episode 6: A Framework for Well-Being in Schools
The preceding five episodes focused on different issues, questions, and ideas that arise from the notion that school education is to be primarily about student well-being. In this final episode, the host of the series, Thomas Falkenberg, draws together these ideas and the responses to these issues and questions from the invited guests of the preceding episodes to provide a broad understanding of what it might, could, and maybe should mean for school education to be primarily about student well-being.
Episode 5: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Student Well-Being
In this fifth episode, the guests explore questions of curriculum and pedagogy that arise from the idea of making school education primarily about student well-being. They engage with the question about the relationship between the teaching of traditional core school subjects and the idea that school education is primarily about student well-being, and with questions about curricular and pedagogical implications for the teaching of school subjects if school education is to be primarily about student well-being.
Episode 4: Well-Being of Professionals Working in Schools
This fourth episode focuses on the well-being of professionals who work in schools and school divisions, particularly on the well-being of school administrators and school psychologists. The guests in this episode engage with questions like “What does well-being for these groups of professionals mean?”, “What does current research say about the challenges that these professionals face in terms of their well-being?” “How might those challenges be addressed?” and “How is the well-being of these professionals linked to student well-being?”
Episode 3: Community, School Organization, and Well-Being in Schools
In this third episode, the guests explore the role of community in which a school is located and the understanding of schools as organizations when pursuing the idea of making school education primarily about student well-being. This episode engages with questions like “What implications does community-focused school education have on how we might understand well-being in schools?” “What work do schools face when student well-being is made a central concern for school education?” and “What needs to change at the communal and social level in order to support this needed work?”
Episode 2: Foundational Questions on Well-Being in Schools
In this third episode, the guests explore the role of community in which a school is located and the understanding of schools as organizations when pursuing the idea of making school education primarily about student well-being. This episode engages with questions like “What implications does community-focused school education have on how we might understand well-being in schools?” “What work do schools face when student well-being is made a central concern for school education?” and “What needs to change at the communal and social level in order to support this needed work?”
Episode 1: Introduction to the Series
In this first episode, the host of the series, Thomas Falkenberg, introduces the podcast series Well-Being in Schools to listeners by sharing some important beacons in the landscape that this podcast series explores and that represent the location from which subsequent podcast episodes take their departure.