Browsing Helen Askell-Williams by Issue Date
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Interviews with teachers and learners
(Shannon Research Press, 2001-11)The author has been involved in interviewing teachers and learners about their understandings about teaching and learning. This paper follows from those interviews and begins to discuss what teachers and learners revealed. ... -
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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A Correspondence Analysis of Child-Care Students' and Medical Students' Knowledge about Teaching and Learning
(Shannon Research Press, 2004-07)This paper describes the application of correspondence analysis to transcripts gathered from focused interviews about teaching and learning held with a small sample of child-care students, medical students and the students' ... -
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 ... -
"If you are just sick you could make your own chicken soup". But if it's a mental illness "you can't fix yourself". Teaching secondary school students about mental illness.
(Australian Association for Research in Education Inc, 2006-11)This paper reports a classroom based investigation into the MindMatters curriculum resource “Understanding Mental Illness” (UMI). We observed the teaching of the UMI module in three secondary classrooms. We measured students’ ... -
"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 ... -
Different measures, different informants, same outcomes? Investigating multiple perspectives of primary school students' mental health
(Australian Association for Research in Education Inc, 2008)Student wellbeing is of central concern for parents and teachers and for state and national governments. Policies on wellbeing are now articulated within all educational systems in Australia (e.g. DECS 2008). Effective ... -
Students' experience of the first term in high school
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Implementing a new initiative in mental health in Australian primary schools
(Australian Association for Research in Education Inc, 2009-11)Student wellbeing is of central concern for parents/caregivers and teachers and for state and national governments. In Australia in recent times several major initiatives have been undertaken to address the area of student ... -
KidsMatter Primary Evaluation Final Report
(Flinders University, 2009-12)KidsMatter is an approach to the promotion of good mental health, the prevention of mental illness, and early intervention where problems arise. It requires a whole-of-school approach and has four key components – a positive ... -
What is professional development for mental health promotion in schools like? Perspectives from school leaders and teachers in 100 Australian KidsMatter primary schools
(The Clute Institute, Colorado, 2011)Mental health promotion is a very new area of learning for many school staff. Using data from questionnaires, written reports and focussed interviews, this paper reports school leaders' and teachers' perspectives about the ... -
Whole-school mental health promotion in Australia
(EDRES University of Malta / ENSEC, 2012)Although there is increasing recognition internationally of the significance of social and emotional health and wellbeing for the healthy development of young people, the levels of support that governments provide for ... -
Scaffolding cognitive and metacognitive strategy instruction in regular class lessons
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2012)The quality of teachers’ knowledge about how people learn influences students’ learning outcomes. Similarly, the quality of students’ knowledge about how they learn influences their engagement in self-regulated learning ... -
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, ... -
KidsMatter Early Childhood Evaluation Report
(Shannon Research Press, 2012-07)KidsMatter Early Childhood is the Australian national early childhood mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention initiative specifically developed for early childhood services. It was trialled in 111 long ... -
KidsMatter Early Childhood Evaluation in Services with High Proportions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children
(Shannon Research Press, 2012-09)This is the report of an evaluation of the implementation of KidsMatter Early Childhood (KMEC) in early child care services with relatively higher proportions of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander children situated within ...