ERIC Number: EJ1403648
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-0313-5373
EISSN: EISSN-1835-517X
Six Modes of Giving Pedagogy for Engagement and Wellbeing - for Teachers and Students
Thomas W. Nielsen; Jennifer S. Ma
Australian Journal of Teacher Education, v48 n2 Article 1 2023
The present study took place across two outdoor education trips to the Great Barrier Reef with two groups of college students (N = 36; 16-19 years), five staff, and one of the authors (TWN). The aim was to explore how an explicit understanding and implementation of the wellbeing research around cultivating generous behaviour for meaningful happiness could be "experienced" by staff and students and articulated as an educational framework, or "pedagogy." Hermeneutic phenomenology was used to record and interpret pedagogical transactions of giving. Six repeated themes were identified: (1) exploration, (2) modelling, (3) explicit instruction, (4) incidental learning, (5) crisis management, and (6) intent. Discussed as instrumental for promoting eudaimonic happiness ("meaningful living"), these categories may assist educators by providing a broader spectrum of teaching pedagogies with which to not only improve engagement and wellbeing in young people, but also improve their own sense of professional satisfaction and wellbeing.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learner Engagement, Well Being, Outdoor Education, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, College Faculty
Edith Cowan University. Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, West Australia 6050, Australia. Web site: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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