Learner Wellbeing

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Learner Wellbeing

• Maintaining a healthy well being across
  transition and change.

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Context for study

• Observations of children
• Childrens behaviour
• Apparent loss of skills
• What happens during transition to cause SOME
  children to lose their healthy wellbeing?

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Transition

• Change in environment
• Focus for learning changes
• Relationships change
• Childs sense of self
• Parents
• Educators
• Child

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Transition

• Literature
• Systemic issues
• Childs changing identity
• No identification of what the child brings to the
  process of transition

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Transition

• Big questions
• What does the child bring to the transition
  process?
• This will help to inform curriculum
• What is well being?

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Dimensions of Wellbeing
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Nutrition, physical activity, physical safety
Aspects of Dimensions
Coping, autonomy, trust, attachment
Sense of meaning and purpose, altruism, Sense of
connectedness
Curiosity, motivation, persistence
Relationships, empathy, sympathy
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Wellbeing
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Segments (dimensions) of Wellbeing
physical
Emotional
social
spiritual
Cognitive
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Emotional

• coping
• autonomy
• trust
• attachment

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Physical

• Nutrition
• physical activity
• physical safety

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Spiritual

• beliefs
• values
• sense of meaning and purpose
• altruism
• sense of connectedness

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social

• relationships
• positive social behaviour
• empathy
• sympathy

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cognitive

• curiosity
• motivation
• persistence
• memory
• thinking
• intelligence

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Dimensions of Wellbeing
physical
Emotional
social
spiritual
Cognitive
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Social Competence and Self concept
Emotional Wellbeing
Core elements of an effective learner Bertram
and Pascal(2002)
Relationships Self respect Self
worth Assertiveness Empathy Vitality Sense of
humour
Self esteem Emotional literacy Connectedness Pa
rticipation Assertiveness empowerment
Self esteem Emotional literacy Connectedness Pa
rticipation Assertiveness Empowerment Managemen
t of emotions
Relationships Self respect Self
worth Assertiveness Empathy Vitality Sense of
humour
Dispositions to learn
Resilience, self motivation, independence,
creativity,
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Framework for Resilient Wellbeing.

• Created by Rosemary Roberts
• Companiable learning from birth to three years.
• Dimensions dont work in isolation but are
  inextricably linked (foregrounding and
  backgrounding, Carr 2001).

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Agency

• Learning dispositions
• Self regulation
• Identity
• Self esteem
• Autonomy
• Empowerment
• Pride
• Physical achievement
• Ability to influence

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Belonging and Boundaries

• Attachment
• Security
• Trust
• Acceptance
• Expectations
• Routines
• Responsibilities
• Conformity

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Communication

• Listening
• Talking
• Watching
• Movement
• Representation
• Touching
• Smelling
• Tasting

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Zing!

• Eating
• Sleeping
• Coordination
• Exercise
• Being outside
• Keeping safe
• Laughing

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What is the role of education today for the
adults of tomorrow?

• The direction in which education starts a man
  will determine his future life
• -Plato
• We have an enormous responsibility!!

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What is the role of education today for the
adults of tomorrow?

• Academic achievement?
• Life long healthy individuals?
• (nearly one in five Australians are affected by
  mental health issues.
• Almost 20 of children have mental problems.
  Wingfield 2002)
• Is it the role of early childhood educators to
  prepare children for real school or for real
  life?

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How healthy is the wellbeing of your community?

• The environments in which we work are communities
  of learners
• Research shows that early childhood educators
  (especially Kindergarten teachers) are at
  significant risk in terms of wellbeing.
• What are you doing to ensure a sense of wellbeing
  in your community of learners?