Where to from Here? Priorities for Wellbeing Education, Pedagogy and COVID-19 Recovery

Abstract

The world appears to be approaching a COVID-19 juncture as nations learn to live with the virus, and schools and universities have responded each in their unique way. A chronic problem for wellbeing education research is that it can be siloed. This book responds to the call for a more integrated approach to wellbeing education research in public policy. The authors of this book have responded to the issue through the lens of subfields of education research. Specifically, authors have engaged in new research focusing on wellbeing and the creative arts, media and communication curriculum and pedagogy; curriculum and pedagogy theory and development; teacher education and professional development; inclusive education; teacher and student wellbeing; humanities; and multicultural education. The editors invited established and emerging international experts to engage with the issue. The book adopts Viac and Fraser’s conceptual framework for teachers’ occupational wellbeing as the scaffold to investigate the problem. Chapters advance new knowledge and understanding of the nature of wellbeing in the context of education, examine issues related to ongoing problems of integrating wellbeing concepts into pedagogy in a post COVID-19 pandemic world and investigate international examples of best practices.