Realizing a new vision for wellbeing education: Driving impactful professional learning through research-practice partnerships

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium reimagines how school-university partnerships can strengthen research-informed professional learning to support the implementation of wellbeing education. We address a theoretical gap between existing professional learning approaches and the implementation of wellbeing education research in school systems, leadership, and professional development. We discuss effective wellbeing education practices by drawing on implementation science frameworks, such as the SISTER framework. The symposium will also explore a school-university wellbeing partnership from the perspectives of school employees, a systematic narrative hybrid review of teachers’ mental health support readiness, and a novel framework developed to reconceptualize whole-school wellbeing education strategies. The conclusions will propose new research directions for strengthening evidence-informed in-service teacher and leader professional development strategies in wellbeing education.

Sub Unit

• Division E - Counseling and Human Development / Division E - Section 1: Counseling

Chair

• Mathew White, University of Adelaide

Papers

• Understanding the success of whole-school wellbeing education approaches: Building criteria for implementation and sustainability - Ruth Aston, University of Adelaide

• Using appreciative inquiry to create a new vision for wellbeing: An industry–university partnership - Mathew White, University of Adelaide

• Informing a thriving future: Understanding teacher readiness to support student mental health and wellbeing - Laura Dainton Smith, University of Melbourne

• Constructing a multidimensional hierarchical model of wellbeing literacy: Reenvisioning wellbeing education research - Janet M Clinton, University of Melbourne

Session Organizer

• Mathew White, University of Adelaide

Discussant

• Wayne Cotton, University of Sydney