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Australian and Maltese teachers' perspectives about their capabilities for mental health promotion in school settings
(Elsevier, 2014)There is international concern about the prevalence and severity of mental health difficulties and the impact such difficulties have upon individuals, families, communities and societies. Policy makers identify schools as ... -
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 ... -
Collaboration with parents/carers in KidsMatter school
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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' ... -
Did that Professional Education about Mental Health Promotion Make Any Difference? Early Childhood Educators' Reflections upon Changes in Their Knowledge and Practices
(Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Academic Press, 2013-12)Educators are at the heart of educational reforms, such as the introduction of mental health promotion initiatives into early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. Good quality implementation of reforms requires ... -
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 ... -
Educational community stakeholders' perspectives about teachers' responsibilities for mental health promotion in Maltese schools
(Publications Committee, Faculty of Education, University of Malta, 2013-06)The role of school teachers in promoting students’ mental health is receiving increasing international attention. However, before venturing into schools with new initiatives such as mental health promotion, it is essential ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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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Identifying quality in teacher-education students' models of self-regulation processes in learning: A case study
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"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’ ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...