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Children's Social and Emotional Wellbeing in Schools: A Critical Perspective

Paperback by Watson, Debbie (University of Bristol); Emery, Carl (Resolutions First); Bayliss, Phillip (Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter); Boushel, Margaret; McInnes, Karen

Children's Social and Emotional Wellbeing in Schools: A Critical Perspective

£32.99

ISBN:
9781847425133
Publication Date:
18 Jan 2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bristol University Press
Imprint:
Policy Press
Pages:
288 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 20 - 22 Nov 2026
Children's Social and Emotional Wellbeing in Schools: A Critical Perspective

Description

This book challenges the concept of wellbeing as applied to children, particularly in a school-based context. Taking a post-structural approach, it suggests that wellbeing should be understood, and experiences revealed, at the level of the subjective child. This runs counter to contemporary accounts that reduce children's wellbeing to objective lists of things that are needed in order to live well. This book will be useful for academics and practitioners working directly with children, and anyone interested in children's wellbeing.

Contents

Section 1 Context: Introduction: Conceptual dimensions of wellbeing; Critical review of policy literature and concepts of wellbeing; Schools- current research findings/ trends/ concerns related to wellbeing; Section 2 Key issues: Inclusive Discourses in schools; Social and Emotional Dispositions and Skills- a way forward in understanding wellbeing?; Promoting positive relationships in schools; Play, playfulness and children's wellbeing ~ Karen McInnes; Children's rights and their contribution to wellbeing ~ Margaret Boushel; Professionals supporting wellbeing in schools; Section 3 Conceptions of wellbeing: towards a holistic discourse of wellbeing in schools; Social pedagogy and the promise for conceptions and practice of wellbeing in schools; Whose definition of wellbeing?; Conclusion.

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