What if schools would be primarily concerned with students’ well-being, concerned with helping students to develop the capabilities needed to live a flourishing life – as students and later as adults? A vision of school education worth striving for? How might we go about achieving it? What do we need to consider? Where does this leave the teaching of traditional school subjects?
This six-part podcast series engages with the very idea of making school education primarily about student well-being and with questions that arise from such an undertaking. To this end, ten scholars were invited over Episodes 2 to 5 to speak to these and related questions. Episode 1 introduces the focus of this series, while Episode 6, the final episode, draws the ideas presented in the first five episodes together to provide a broad understanding of what it might, could, and maybe should mean for school education to be primarily about student well-being.
The host and his ten guests of this podcast series are authors and co-authors of chapters in the book Well-Being and Well-Becoming in Schools, published by University of Toronto Press. Ideas presented in this podcast series are based on contributions to this book.
Series Producer: Sarah SchurGraphics by: Kyungdeok Park
Theme Music created and performed by: John Himes
Hosts
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Thomas Falkenberg
Thomas Falkenberg is a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba. More on his background can be found at www.thomasfalkenberg.ca
Episodes
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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. Read more ›
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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. Read more ›
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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. Read more ›
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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. Read more ›
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Episode 2: Foundational Questions on Well-Being in Schools
The guests in this second episode explore questions of foundational nature that arise from the idea of making school education primarily about student well-being. Read more ›
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Episode 1: Introduction to the Series
In this first episode, the host of the series, Thomas Falkenberg, introduces the podcast series Well-Being in School. Read more ›