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Fitzpatrick, Katie; Webber, Melinda; Allen, Jean MUasike; Powell, Darren; Wells, Kat – NZCER Press, 2023
This book is the result of a collaboration between academics at the University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau and teachers in schools. It is an excellent resource for teachers wanting to teach about resilience, mental health, interpersonal skills, and wellbeing. It contains lesson plans designed to enhance learning to enable primary students to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Health, Resilience (Psychology), Well Being
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Radford, Sandy – Early Childhood Folio, 2020
Early childhood teachers enact a relationship-based pedagogy in contexts requiring their consistent emotional labour, not just with children but also with their families. Leaders have additional responsibilities for the wellbeing of teaching teams, meeting the expectations of those in governance roles, and accountabilities to agencies such as the…
Descriptors: Well Being, Early Childhood Education, Administrators, Mental Health
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Poultney, Rachel; Forbes, Dianne – Teachers and Curriculum, 2020
In learning and life, there will always be challenges, requiring resilience to overcome, adapt, and persist in the face of adversity. Resilience is a key aspect of mental health and lifelong learning, reflected in the vision, key competencies, and health-related elements of the New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007). Working on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resilience (Psychology), Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students
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Galvin, Alexandra; Davis, Georgina; Neumann, Denise; Underwood, Lisa; Peterson, Elizabeth R.; Morton, Susan M. B.; Waldie, Karen E. – International Journal for Research in Learning Disabilities, 2020
A variety of antenatal risk factors have been established as being detrimental to a child's developing language ability. Our aim was to examine the relationship between exposure to cumulative risk (CR), including antenatal maternal, perinatal, and maternal health characteristics, and children's preschool language ability. Analyses were comprised…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, Language Impairments, At Risk Persons, Language Skills
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Mooney, Maureen; Tarrant, Ruth; Paton, Douglas; Johnston, David; Johal, Sarb – Pastoral Care in Education, 2021
The Canterbury, New Zealand, earthquake disaster of 2010-2011 had a major impact on children. The present study aims to increase understanding of schools' contributions to children's recovery by examining how this core context fosters children's effective coping in a disaster. The study uses a phenomenological approach to investigate the disaster…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Natural Disasters, Coping, Parent Attitudes
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Bernay, Ross; Graham, Esther; Devcich, Daniel A.; Rix, Grant; Rubie-Davies, Christine M. – Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 2016
Children today face increasingly high stress levels, impacting their well-being. Schools can play a crucial role in teaching social and emotional skills; therefore there is a need to identify effective interventions. This mixed-methods study of 124 elementary school students from three New Zealand schools aimed to (1) assess if children…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Well Being, Student Participation, Foreign Countries