Searching for Wellbeing in Schools: A New Framework to Guide the Science of Positive Education

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“…Results from this study found that wellbeing literacy in students grew significantly after their teachers had undertaken a positive education intervention. Teachers were trained in the science and practice of wellbeing using the SEARCH framework (Waters, 2019;Waters & Loton, 2019) and were shown how to implement positive education language and practices in the classroom. When this occurred, post-intervention student literacy evolved in four key ways.…”

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“…Visible Wellbeing trains teachers in a language, framework and practices for seeing and building the wellbeing of their students. The evidence-based framework that underpins the VWB intervention is called SEARCH (Waters, 2019;Waters & Loton, 2019). The SEARCH framework covers six overarching pathways to wellbeing: strengths, emotional management, attention and awareness, relationships, coping and habits, and goals.…”

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The impact of a teacher-based positive education intervention on student wellbeing literacy

Waters

Higgins

2021

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Over the past decade, research has consistently found that positive education interventions have a beneficial effect on mental health outcomes for students, such as improvements in life satisfaction and reduction of anxiety. While it is encouraging to see these changes in student mental health, the research has not yet adequately explored whether positive education interventions change a student’s understanding of wellbeing itself. Wellbeing literacy is a new construct within the field of positive education and is defined as the ability to understand the concept and language of wellbeing. This study examines whether student language and understanding of wellbeing changes following an intervention that trains teachers in the core principles of positive education. Students across grades five, six and seven (ages 11–13; n = 231) from three Australian schools provided brief written descriptions of their understanding of wellbeing before and after their teachers undertook an eight-month positive education intervention. Thematic analysis was used as the methodological tool to analyze student language and understanding of wellbeing. Inferential frequency-based statistical analyses were used to compare the pre-intervention and post-intervention responses. The results revealed that student understanding of wellbeing evolved in four key ways to become more: (1) detailed; (2) strength based; (3) expanded/multidimensional; and (4) relational. Post-intervention understanding of wellbeing was significantly more likely to include aspects of emotional management, strengths, coping, mindfulness and self-kindness. Implications, limitations and future directions are discussed.

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The impact of a teacher-based positive education intervention on student wellbeing literacy

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Higgins

2021

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“…The current case study adopted the SEARCH positive education framework (Waters, 2017b(Waters, , 2019(Waters, , 2021Waters & Loton, 2019). SEARCH is a framework that comprises six pathways to well-being: strengths, emotional management, attention and awareness, relationships, coping, and habits and goals.…”

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Embedding Well-being into School: A Case Study of Positive Education Before and During COVID-19 Lockdowns

Waters

Johnstone²

2022

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For more than a decade, the field of positive education has amassed growing evidence that school-based well-being interventions support and boost the mental health of students. Outcomes such as hope, subjective well-being, life satisfaction, pro-social behavior, school engagement and academic grades have all been shown to significantly increase following positive education interventions. While the growing science has created confidence about the outcomes that can be attained through a positive education approach, significantly less scientific attention has been given to the processes that schools employ to embed a positive education approach. In other words, the field has provided information about what positive education can lead to but has published comparatively little on how positive education becomes infused into schools. The aim of the current qualitative paper is to provide a descriptive case study of one school’s positive education approach before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. A single-case study design was used to conduct a detailed description of how one school has embedded a positive education approach using the SEARCH framework which contains six pathways to well-being: strengths, emotional management, attention and awareness, relationships, coping, and habits and goals. Descriptions are provided for how SEARCH was embedded during on-campus learning before COVID-19 and how it was utilized during two periods of distance learning during the global pandemic. Results from the current study suggest that having a positive education framework, training all staff, having both student and staff well-being initiatives and cultivating a common language for positive education are core processes that create a sustained and adaptive culture of wellbeing. We hope that this case study inspires schools to use student well-being as a prevention tool in good times and as a crisis management tool in times of adversity.

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The SEARCH for AI-Informed Wellbeing Education: A Conceptual Framework

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Kern,

Crawford

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Searching for Wellbeing in Schools: A New Framework to Guide the Science of Positive Education

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

The impact of a teacher-based positive education intervention on student wellbeing literacy

The impact of a teacher-based positive education intervention on student wellbeing literacy

Embedding Well-being into School: A Case Study of Positive Education Before and During COVID-19 Lockdowns

The SEARCH for AI-Informed Wellbeing Education: A Conceptual Framework

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