ABSTRACT

Wellbeing and Resilience Education engages with the immediate impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the theoretical and applied elements of wellbeing and resilience education. It explores the implications for students, teachers, and teaching from a transdisciplinary and international perspective. Featuring thirteen chapters written by 27 academics from across the globe, it includes new transdisciplinary research by organisational psychologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, policy experts and education researchers. The book comprises a wide range of topics including: appreciative inquiry, educational leadership, refugee education, resilience education, designing online courses, teacher wellbeing and community responses during the Covid-19 pandemic.

This timely volume will be of interest to academics, initial teacher educators, postgraduate students, school leaders and policymakers researching the field of wellbeing, resilience, education, schools, and schooling.   

  

chapter 2|15 pages

Wellbeing from the outside-in

How mirror flourishing elevates collective wellbeing both within and beyond the classroom

chapter 6|15 pages

Why embedding character education in schools matters

Key learnings from our research on character strengths

chapter 12|23 pages

Destruction to regeneration

How community trauma and disruption can precipitate collective transformation