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Childhood Well-being and Resilience: Influences on Educational Outcomes book cover

1st Edition

Childhood Well-being and Resilience Influences on Educational Outcomes

Edited By Zeta Brown, Sarah Mander Copyright 2021
200 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book examines the ways in which well-being affects educational outcomes. Using an ecological approach, the book defines what we mean by well-being and resilience in education and how this relates to policy and children and young people’s rights. The book considers strategies utilised by the education, health, voluntary and private sectors which promote well-being and resilience for children... Read more

Contents page

List of abbreviations

List of Contributors

Introduction

ZETA WILLIAMS-BROWN AND SARAH MANDER

Section 1: Defining well-being and resilience in education

  1. Understanding the concept of child well-being: domains, dimensions and discourses

    2. ALYSON LEWIS

  2. The concept of resilience and implications for interventions in schools

    3. LYDIA LEWIS, EMMA ORMEROD AND KATHRYN ECCELSTONE

  3. Well-being, Mental Health and the Student Population

    4. SARAH MANDER

  4. Listening to children: the rights of the child

    5. HELEN LYNDON

    Section 2 The role of children and young people in their own well-being and resilience

  5. What does resilience mean to children?

    6. ZETA WILLIAMS-BROWN, JAYNE DALY, MICHAEL JOPLING AND ANDREW ASTON

  6. The importance of positive peer relationships for child well-being and resilience

    7. ALISON WREN

  7. Mental Health in Digital Lives

    8. GAVIN RHOADES, JOHN OWEN AND BILL MYERS.

    Section 3: Examples of practice interventions that support children and young people’s well-being and resilience

  8. Well-being and outdoor learning
    GARY BEAUCHAMP, SUSAN DAVIS, CHANTELLE HAUGHTON, CHERYL ELLIS, DYLAN ADAMS, SIAN SARWAR, SANDRA DUMITRESCU AND JACKIE TYRIE.

    9.

  9. The role of mindfulness in supporting well-being in young children

    10. CHRIS LUDLOW

  10. Education and Social Work working collaboratively to support vulnerable families: benefits and tensions

    11. MICHAEL JOPLING AND SHARON VINCENT

  11. Solution Focused Resilience Work: from the fantastical to the real
    DEAN-DAVID HOLYOAKE

    12. Section 4: Societal and cultural influences upon children's and young people’s well-being and resilience

  12. The Flourishing Practitioner

    13. ZENNA KINGDON

  13. Developing a resilient nation. Devolution and the Welsh approach to enhancing well-being

    14. CAROLINE LEWIS

  14. Well-being as a right: Challenging the role of educational professionals in supporting children in Italian schools

    15. ELISABETTA BIFFI, CHRISTINA PALMIERI, AND MARIA BENEDETTA GAMBACORTI-PASSERINI

  15. The role of the kindergarten in children’s well-being and resilience: the case of Norway

Maria Dardanou and Eirin Gamst-Nergård　

　Conclusion

Biography

Zeta Williams-Brown is a Reader in Education for Social Justice at the University of Wolverhampton. She is leader of the Childhood, Youth and Families Research and Scholarship group for the Education Observatory. She is an executive member and currently Chair of the British Education Studies Association (BESA).

Sarah Mander is a Staff Tutor and Lecturer for The Open University. She has 20 years of practice experience in working with children, young people and their families across private, statutory and voluntary sectors. Sarah is currently studying for her Doctoral award and is researching Early Help workforce competencies.

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