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Book SynopsisThis collection brings education scholars from Manitoba together to inquire into issues arising from the idea to make school education primarily about student well-being.
Table of Contents1. Introduction: Framing the Work on Well-Being and Well-Becoming Needed in School Education Thomas Falkenberg Foundational Questions on Well-Being and Well-Becoming in Schools 2. Three Theories of Well-Being and Their Implications for School Education Erik Magnusson and Heather Krepski 3. Three Foundational Questions for Policymakers and Practitioners Concerned with Student Well-Being Heather Krepski 4. Responding to the Other: The Need for an Ethic of Well-Being Rebeca Heringer and Thomas Falkenberg Conceptualizing Well-Being and Well-Becoming in Schools 5. Well-Being as a Core Focus of School Education: Conceptualizing Indigenous Well-Being Frank Deer and Jessica Trickey 6. Meaning in Life: A Core Component of Human and Student Well-Becoming Thomas Falkenberg 7. Well-Being of School Counsellors and School Psychologists Virginia M.C. Tze and Stephanie Brekelmans Contextualizing Well-Being and Well-Becoming in Schools 8. Well-Being in the Context of School Organizations Lesley G. Eblie Trudel 9. Well-Being and Well-Becoming in Inner-City Schools: Supporting Students’ Wholistic Flourishing in Inner-City Communities Jeannie Kerr 10. Developmental Evaluation as a Tool for Promoting Well-Being in Schools: A Case Study Cameron Hauseman, Thomas Falkenberg, Jennifer Watt, and Heather Krepski 11. A Complex Adaptive Systems Approach to Well-Becoming in Schools Thomas Falkenberg, Heather Krepski, Cameron Hauseman, and Jennifer Watt Curricularizing Well-Being and Well-Becoming in Schools 12. Finding Meaning in Life through School Mathematics Thomas Falkenberg 13. Making Meaning of Science Curriculum through Ecojustice and Place-Based Education: Looking through the Lens of Well-Being and Well-Becoming Michael Link 14. Kitchen Table and Greenbelt Writers: Flourishing Writing in English Language Arts and Beyond Jennifer Watt 15. Conclusion: Where to Go from Here Thomas Falkenberg Index
