Helen Askell-Williams
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Involvement in Bullying During High School: A Survival Analysis Approach
(Springer Publishing Company, 2018-06-01)Knowledge about the risks of bullying involvement during any year of high school is an important element of interventions for changing the likelihood of being bullied. Three cohorts of Australian students (n = 1,382) were ... -
Mainland Chinese students’ mental health: baseline data and cautionary notes when exporting/importing psychological scales
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2018-05-29)There is a growing interest in mainland China about schools’ roles in supporting students to develop positive mental health. However, relatively little data have been collected about mainland Chinese students’ mental health. ... -
Life at school and mental health from students' points of view: A study from Malta
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Collaboration with parents/carers in KidsMatter school
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University lecturers' perspectives on initial teacher education for mental health promotion in schools
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Perspectives from teachers and school leaders about long-term sustainability: A challenge for mental health promotion initiatives in educational settings
(Sense Publications, 2017)The chapters in this book report research into a range of programs, across many countries, which have as their central concern the promotion of young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Funding has been directed towards ... -
School staff's perspectives on mental health promotion and wellbeing in school
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Life at school: And students' mental health
(Australian College of Educators, 2017-05)The 2016 NAPLAN results have been rolled out. Parents/careers and children might be ecstatic, happy, unhappy, anxious, angry, dismayed, sad, depressed. NAPLAN is an example of just one of many things that happen in schools ... -
Parents' Perspectives of School Mental Health Promotion Initiatives are Related to Parents' Self-Assessed Parenting Capabilities
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-12-07)Achieving broad-scale parenti engagement with school initiatives has proven elusive. This paper reports survey data from 287 Maltese parents about their perceptions of the quality of their child's school’s initiatives for ... -
Framing the features of good quality knowledge for teachers and students
(Cambridge University Press, 2012-07)In this paper we have two concerns. First we consider the features used to describe good quality learning actions and knowledge representations. Our second concern is the need to develop students’ knowledge of how to act, ... -
IB middle years program (MYP): Student social-emotional well-being and school success practices
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Relationships between students' mental health and their perspectives of life at school
(Emerald, 2015)Purpose This paper explores relationships between students’ self-reported mental health and their perspectives about life at school in metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia Design/methodology/approach The Strengths and ... -
Sustainable professional learning for early childhood educators: Lessons from an Australia-wide mental health promotion initiative
(SAGE Publications, 2015-04)New policy initiatives, such as those concerned with promoting young children’s positive mental health, highlight the need for good quality professional education in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector. ... -
Exploring Three Measures of Student Wellbeing
(Information Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global), 2015)There has been limited consensus on how young people's wellbeing should be measured (O'Hare & Gutierrez, 2012). One approach, suggested by Lau and Bradshaw (2010), is that people’s subjective judgments capture the essence ... -
Changes in Students' Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategy Use over Five Years of Secondary Schooling
(Information Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global), 2015)As students progress through school, we expect that their knowledge about the various subject matters, such as biology or maths, becomes more extensive, well structured, and readily available for application in diverse ... -
"You Can't Have One without the Other" Transactions between Education and Wellbeing for Indigenous Peoples
(Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health, 2007)We start with a story from one of our authors that tells about the possibility of change. The need for change is highlighted by a short review of the dire situation in health and education for many Indigenous peoples. We ... -
Investigating the complex, dynamic and transactional nature of child-care students' and university access students' knowledge about learning
(Australian Association for Research in Education Inc, 2014)Constructivist perspectives propose that learners build new knowledge upon the foundations of their existing knowledge. Learners bring their existing knowledge to new learning in topic domains such as mathematics and ... -
Teacher Education Students' Knowledge About how Class Discussions Help Them to Learn
(Australian Association for Research in Education Inc, 2002-11)Self-regulatory perspectives of learning imply that students need to possess knowledge about 1) themselves as learners, 2) how to build effective knowledge structures, and 3) how to further develop and apply their knowledge. ... -
Identifying quality in teacher-education students' models of self-regulation processes in learning: A case study
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Extending teacher education students' mental models of teaching and learning through Problem Based Learning
(Australian Association for Research in Education Inc, 2005-11)This paper reports student teachers’ reflections on changes in their mental models of teaching and learning following their experiences of a problem based learning (PBL) topic. Students develop robust mental models of ...
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