1st Edition
Supporting Student and Faculty Wellbeing in Graduate Education Teaching, Learning, Policy, and Praxis
Supporting Student and Faculty Wellbeing in Graduate Education recognizes new pressures impacting graduate students and their supervisors, teachers, and mentors globally. The work provides a range of insights and strategies which reflect on wellbeing as an integral part of teaching, learning, policy, and student-mentor relationships.
The authors offer a uniquely holistic approach to supporting the wellbeing of both students and academic staff in graduate education. The text showcases optimized approaches to self-care, self-regulation, and policy development, as well as trauma-informed, arts-based, and embodied pedagogies. Particular attention is given to the challenges faced by minority groups including Indigenous, international, refugee, and immigrant students and staff.
Providing a timely analysis of the current issues surrounding student and faculty wellbeing, this volume will appeal to scholars and researchers working across the fields of higher education, sociology of education, educational psychology, and student affairs.
Introduction: Defining "Wellbeing" for Students and Faculty in Graduate Education
Snežana Obradović-Ratković, Mirjana Bajovic, Ayse Pinar Sen, Vera Woloshyn, and Michael Savage
PART I: Conceptualizing Student and Faculty Wellbeing in Graduate Education Globally
1. Graduate Student Mental Health and Wellness: What We Know from Global Perspectives
Jace Pillay
2. Indigenous and Immigrant Voices for Healing and Wellness in Graduate Education
Catherine Longboat, Snežana Obradović-Ratković, Esther Wainaina, and Reshma Rose Tom
3. Promoting Communal Care for Wellbeing in Graduate Education: Community Building, Belonging, and Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic
Vera Woloshyn, Bharati Sethi, and Snežana Obradović-Ratković
PART II: Teaching, Learning, and Policy for Supporting Student and Faculty Wellbeing
4. Building Intercultural Mentorship, Wellbeing, and Wholistic Practice in Graduate Education: Scholarly Reflections on Playbuilding, Storytelling, and the Arts
Kari-Lynn Winters, Snežana Obradović-Ratković, Catherine Longboat, and Spy Dénommé-Welch
5. Using Facilitated Dialogues and Empathetic Listening to Empower Academic and Emotional Wellbeing in Graduate Education: Exploring the Role of Skilled Helpers
Sharon M. Moukperian, Vera Woloshyn, and Vince Capano
6. Roadmaps of Mental Health: An Environmental Scan of Mental Health Policies and Strategies in Ontario Universities
Kenneth Smith and Catherine Hands
Part III: Individual and Relational Strategies for Supporting Student and Faculty Wellbeing
7. A Self-Regulation Framework to Support the Mental Health and Wellbeing of International Female Graduate Students
Claudia Flores, Sonia Mastrangelo, and Meridith Lovell-Johnston
8. Self-care as an Essential Part of Trauma-informed Educational Practice and Policy in Graduate Education
Lisa D. Butler, Katie McClain-Meeder, and Kelly Mercer
9. Learning with and from One Another: Valuing Self-care as a Part of the Higher-Degree Research Student and Supervisor Relationship
Narelle Lemon, Heidi Harju-Luukkainen, and Susanne Garvis
10. A Closer Look at the Experiences of International Graduate Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connections to Wellbeing
Ayse Pinar Sen, Min Huang, and Nguyen Hoang Giang Le
Conclusion: Leading the Way
Snežana Obradović-Ratković, Mirjana Bajovic, Ayse Pinar Sen, Vera Woloshyn, and Michael Savage
Biography
Snežana Obradović-Ratković is a research officer and instructor in the Faculty of Education, Brock University, Canada.
Mirjana Bajovic is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education, Brock University, Canada.
Ayse Pinar Sen is a Ph.D. candidate, instructor, research assistant, and Mindful Writing Facilitator in the Faculty of Education, Brock University, Canada.
Vera Woloshyn is a professor in the Faculty of Education, Brock University, Canada. She is Director of the Canadian Culture and Education Studies and Leadership in Community-based Education programs. She is also a Registered Psychotherapist (RP).
Michael Savage is an associate professor of education in the Faculty of Education, Brock University, Canada. He is Director of the MEd program and Undergraduate Educational Studies. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist (C. Psych).
