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'You are being categorised as better than you are'.. Male students’ perception of male student mental health Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Claire Elizabeth Wolstenholme
The mental health of English university students is an increasing concern and is now often described as a ‘crisis’. Most higher education students are at the key age of onset for mental ill-health,...
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So then you had to get back all that friendship: children’s lived experiences of the COVID-19 lockdowns and on returning to school Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Lulu Gardiner-Smith, Sophie Jackson
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an immense impact on the global population. Lockdown restrictions and school closures resulted in disruption to children’s learning and prolonged periods of social iso...
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Preventing harmful sexual behaviours in children and young people: evaluating the role of primary education Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Thomas Ekers
This paper explores the issue of harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) presented by young people, advocating a preventative approach through an increased focus on primary education. The definition of HSB,...
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Correction Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2024-04-02
Published in Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal of Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Supporting primary teachers to address loss and death in the classroom: a case study of an interdisciplinary, creative pedagogical intervention using education, children’s literature, architecture/design and the arts Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Kate Adams, Sibylle Erle, Sophie Ungerer, Marina Sossi
Schools inevitably face difficult discussions with children about loss and death, irrespective of whether it is factored into formal teaching. A range of societal factors in many countries, not lea...
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Healthy relationships education - it’s not all about sex! A commentary on the importance of children’s friendships within the pastoral curriculum Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Claire P. Monks, Rachel Maunder
In this commentary we reflect on the recently introduced statutory framework for Relationships Education in primary education in England and welcome the inclusion of friendships on the curriculum. ...
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Cannabis use amongst students attending an alternative provision in the United Kingdom Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Joseph Humphreys, Cathy Atkinson, Alexandra Hennessey
For reasons explored within the paper, adolescents excluded from mainstream education are more likely to use cannabis regularly. Research into the cannabis use (CU) of adolescents excluded from mai...
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Early career teachers’ learning about promoting health and wellbeing: a narrative study understanding health and wellbeing in early career teachers: a narrative study Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Deborah Holt, Shirley Gray, Donna Dey, Louise Campbell
In Scotland, as with many other countries, the requirement to promote pupil health and wellbeing is the responsibility of all, yet little is known about how early career teachers learn to meet this...
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Exploring the feasibility of using Participatory Action Research (PAR) as a mechanism for school culture change to improve mental health Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Liam Spencer, Naomi Leonard, Patricia Jessiman, Greta Kaluževičiūtė-Moreton, Mark Limmer, Judi Kidger
Adolescence is a key time to prevent or reduce poor mental health outcomes. Supportive school environments play an important role in this, and the concept of health-promoting schools have been supp...
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The importance of safe, brave and facilitated spaces in student-staff partnerships - finding a space for compassion Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Marina Trowell
This study focuses on the importance of having a safe space, brave space and a facilitated space in student-staff partnerships. The importance of having a facilitated space of drop-ins and workshop...
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Has the explicit teaching of emotions a place in the secondary school curriculum? a small-scale PE-based study Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Eleni Dimitrellou, George Koutsouris, Alison Pearson
The secondary school curriculum largely aims to prepare students academically, often overlooking the holistic development of the learner. The benefits of socio-emotional learning (SEL) to student b...
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Applying the power threat meaning framework to the UK education system Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Kalum. S. Bodfield, Aisling Culshaw
The Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF; Johnstone & Boyle, 2018a, 2018b) has fundamentally changed both the practice of clinical psychology and the understanding of mental health since its concep...
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Parents’ perceptions of life skills education for empowering secondary school students: a qualitative exploration Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Fatima Maqsood, Fatima Batool, Samina Malik
This study explores the parents’ perceptions about the meaning and importance of various life skills education as tool for empowering young children, and about the role of schools and parents in st...
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Trauma-informed education: a case for compassion-focused teaching? Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Aisling Culshaw, Kalum Bodfield
While education seeks to develop academic knowledge, there too lies the need for children and young people’s personal, social, emotional, and ethical needs to be met, to develop confidence and auto...
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The importance of pastoral care in education to support the mental health of children and young people Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Noel Purdy
Published in Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal of Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2024)
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Whanaungatanga: tutors’ experiences of caring for students in an Aotearoa New Zealand university Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Alex Walker, Sandi L. Tait-McCutcheon, Amanda Wood
Who is caring for and supporting our students at university and how is the care and support demonstrated? Students come to university with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and needs and many will ...
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The effects of cyberbullying on primary-stage students Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Laila Saud Alkhayat
Today’s digital world is plagued with cyberbullying, not only among youth but also involving adults and children. This research examines Kuwaiti children’s parents’ cyberbullying experiences. The s...
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Making sense of experience: tools for collaboration with children and young people with social, emotional and mental health needs at points of school transition Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Emma Ní Chinnéide, Aaron Reynolds, Zahra Ahmed, Myooran Canagaratnam
Many teachers, pastoral care staff, counsellors, psychologists and others from related disciplines who support children and young people’s (CYP’s) personal, social and emotional development are con...
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A thematic analysis of self-reported teacher perceptions and management of atypical student behaviours and their relation to the student self-concept Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Kalum S. Bodfield, Philip Carey, David W. Putwain, Avril Rowley
Teacher responses to student behaviour directly influence numerous factors including student self-concept and later behaviour. Students with SEND tend to have a worse self-concept than their neurot...
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Demographic predictors of disciplinary sanctions among middle school victims of bullying: a quantitative correlation study Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Dr. Corey Centwane C. Calhoun Sr.
Bullying victimization is a very common, complex, and potentially damaging form of violence among children and adolescents. Bullying is defined as unwanted, aggressive behavior, which involves a re...
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Growing up online – challenges for pastoral care Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Noel Purdy
Published in Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal of Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2023)
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Does primary school teachers’ perceived efficacy in classroom management/discipline predict their perceptions of inclusive education? Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Eleni Didaskalou, Panayiota Stavroussi, Jennifer Greif Green
The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationships between Greek teachers’ perceived efficacy in classroom behavior management/discipline and their perceptions of inclusive education...
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The application of a Foucauldian approach to analyse school bullying: a critique Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Elizabeth Mary Nassem
Bullying remains a serious problem in schools in England and internationally despite the plethora of research, interventions and policies which aim to address it. The majority of research and inter...
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‘It’s properly changed, and I think it’s going to continue.’ How the pandemic and the cost of living crisis remade the teaching assistant role Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Sophie Hall, Rob Webster
This paper presents evidence of how the role of teaching assistants (TAs) in England has been remade by the Covid pandemic. Drawing on data from a national survey of 9,055 TAs and 22 semi-structure...
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The lived experiences of pastoral staff employed in social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) secondary schools: a narrative exploration Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Elaine Bowes, Sue McAndrew, Donna Peach
This paper explores experiences of pastoral staff, working in social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) special secondary schools, regarding the psychological impact of their work. To date, atten...
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Relational responsibility, social discipline and behaviour in school: re-orienting discipline and authority through a distributed network of relational accountability Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Rebecca Hibbin
This paper provides an exploration of a non-hierarchical model of discipline observed in one Secondary School in the North-East of England, that employed the whole-school use of Restorative Practic...
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The philosophy of Botho: the key to Botswana’s citizenship education Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Yaone Duduetsang Matsagopane, Shengquan Luo
African communities have experienced disharmony, which makes communal living difficult. This paper reinforces the importance of local philosophies, which can improve communal living. This paper pro...
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Exploring secondary school pupils’ views regarding the skills and outcomes they gain whilst undertaking the Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) intervention Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Rebekah Purcell, Catherine Kelly, Kevin Woods
The Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) intervention aims to build capacity within schools to support emotional wellbeing needs. Within the current evidence base, there appears to be an und...
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A qualitative study of Swedish pupils’ perspectives on supportive school climates and help-seeking Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Camilla Forsberg, Eva Hammar Chiriac, Robert Thornberg
The aim of this study is to explore pupils’ perspectives on school climate, with a focus on help-seeking from teachers when experiencing unsafe incidents. Fifty-nine focus group interviews were con...
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Using young peoples’ lived experiences to explore definitional characteristics for cyberbullying Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Claire Hawkins
ABSTRACT Applying established definitions of bullying to the more recent phenomenon of cyberbullying often results in an ill-fitting definition which is contested by academics. There are particular difficulties when applying the well-documented facets of intentional harm, repetition and power imbalance to the context of online bullying. A contested definition presents challenges when comparing studies
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The fluent leader: functional fluency and effective leadership inspired by transactional analysis Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Giles Barrow
Published in Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal of Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2024)
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The disruptive impact of COVID-19 on relationships in Irish primary schools: key issues Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Margaret Nohilly, Bernie Collins, Veronica O’ Toole
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic is an event that will be written about in history, given its impact on life across the globe, on ways of working, on mortality rates and on day to day living. How schools undertook their work changed across the pandemic, as school buildings both in Ireland and across the world closed for long periods of time. In this timeframe, school communities adapted to online teaching
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Eliciting student perspectives to inform the design of positive psychology courses: a qualitative study Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Aflaha Rukhsaar Khan, Elizabeth Rieger
ABSTRACT Undergraduate positive psychology courses are typically semester-long educational courses or units of study dedicated to providing students with an understanding of the science of wellbeing and the factors contributing to optimal human functioning. A number of universities around the world offer positive psychology courses, yet little is known about students’ perspectives of these courses
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Still surviving, rather than thriving - the need to reimagine post-pandemic wellbeing according to secondary school teachers Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Rosanna Wilson, Edward Sellman, Stephen Joseph
ABSTRACT In Spring Term 2021 following the second school closure and third lockdown in England, educational recovery and catch-up were key concerns for secondary schools. Following teacher interviews regarding wellbeing in secondary school teaching practice in Winter 2020–21, teachers from 10 schools (n = 18) took part in focus groups and interviews to explore their understandings of practice for wellbeing
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Pathway planning for alternative provision students using self-determination theory: an exploratory study Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Richard Gregory, Cathy Atkinson
ABSTRACT This case study research explores the potential of a post-16 pathway planning process based upon self-determination theory (SDT). Two male students at an alternative provision (AP), were supported by a behavioural support teacher to take part in a pre-planning meeting with the researcher to explore their post-16 aspirations. They then took part in a planning session within which the discussion
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Persistent bullying and the influence of turning points: learnings from an instrumental case study Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-08-17 D.M. Green, D.A. Price, B.A. Spears
ABSTRACT Persistent bullying behavior is that which starts high and remains either moderately high or persistently high, seemingly in spite of intervention/prevention approaches employed: yet little is known about how/why persistent bullying emerges or is sustained. Those who do not respond to interventions and persist with their bullying behavior, require close consideration and more targeted, nuanced
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Peer relationships: school mediation benefits for sustainable peace Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Sara Ibarrola-García
ABSTRACT School mediation is a peacekeeping, conflict-resolution procedure. Evaluating mediation processes allows us to assess their effects through their participants. This systematic review of studies of school mediation aims to study what evidence exist on its educational benefits for teacher mediators, student mediators, and mediated students. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews
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University student settlement and wellbeing with dogs as transitional support Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Diahann Gallard
ABSTRACT This paper considers the topic of student wellbeing using the lens of a different type of support mechanism – ‘dog borrowing’ – which builds on prior research about emotion work and human-animal interactions but in the context of student transitions and pastoral care in higher education. This novel study was about the experiences of students settling into their university life and how, through
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“Children will leave school with these life skills, which I think is amazing”: an interview study exploring teachers’ experiences of implementing a health and wellbeing curriculum Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Kaydee L. Owen, Gemma M. Griffith, Duncan Gillard, Corinna F. Grindle
ABSTRACT Since 2020, changes to the school curriculum in England and Wales have made elements of Personal, Social, and Health Education (PSHE) statutory. As schools grapple with these changes, alongside the psychosocial impact of the Coronavirus pandemic, it is important to consider effective ways of helping children make safe decisions and improve their overall mental health/wellbeing. Previous research
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What helps young people at risk of exclusion to remain in high school? Using Q methodology to hear student voices Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Moira Hulme, Carrie Adamson, Dominic Griffiths
ABSTRACT This study explores the views of young people attending within-school ‘alternative’ provision to support their return to mainstream classes. Q-methodology was used to explore pupil views about what helps and inhibits successful on-site ‘reintegration’. Eighteen pupils aged 13–16 years with experience of attending school inclusion centres in three high schools participated. Protective factors
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Who cares about Pastoral Care? Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Noel Purdy
Published in Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal of Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Vol. 41, No. 3, 2023)
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Co-designing guidance for Relationships and Sex Education to ‘transform school cultures’ with young people in England Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Emily Setty
ABSTRACT Young people’s perspectives on the potentialities of and problems with Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) in England are well documented. This article shares insights from a co-design project conducted with young people and third-sector experts during 2020/21 which sought to identify and develop recommendations for schools regarding the design and delivery of critically informed RSE that
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Conceptualisations of care: the understanding of ‘care’ across Irish educational legislation, policies, circulars and curriculum Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Joanne O’Flaherty, Orla McCormack
Set against a context where care for the person, others, and the world in which we live receives increasing attention in the policy and practice nexus, this paper sets out to explore how ‘care’ is ...
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Facilitators and barriers to implementing a whole-school mental health programme Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Alice Wignall, Cathy Atkinson, Philippa Grace
To develop positive learning environments, it is important that supporting mental health and wellbeing is a priority. Whole-school programmes are considered an effective way of developing provision...
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Investigating the factors affecting adolescents’ test anxiety in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Dionysios Trikoilis
ABSTRACT The most prevalent mental health challenges in teenagers are generalized anxiety disorder and depression. The (COVID-19) pandemic has added an extra negative effect on children’s mental health.1 This study focuses on the investigation of a specific form of adolescent anxiety, i.e. test anxiety (TA). TA in adolescents is associated with mental and behavioral comorbidities and may have adverse
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How able did newly qualified teachers in England feel to support pupils’ mental health in the late stages of COVID 19? A qualitative study of teacher perceptions Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Sophie West, Louisa Shirley
The prevalence of mental health problems in school children has grown, especially during the pandemic, detrimentally impacting the lives of those affected. In the UK, primary school teachers and sc...
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Community celebrations in challenging times Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-05-21 Caron Carter
Published in Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal of Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2023)
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Dilemmas of ‘doing good’: How teachers respond to the care needs of newly arrived refugee and immigrant adolescents in Denmark Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Anne Sofie Borsch, An Verelst, Signe Smith Jervelund, Ilse Derluyn, Morten Skovdal
There is growing interest in the role of schools in supporting children facing adversity, including children with refugee and immigrant backgrounds. Based on six months of ethnographic fieldwork (D...
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“Renegades, outsiders and lone warriors”: A qualitative study exploring perceptions of professional identity among counsellors working with children and young people in the United Kingdom Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Rebecca Kirkbride, Maria Livanou, Verity Longley, Susan Margaret Waring
The present study investigates how counsellors working with children and young people (CYP) perceive their professional identity, and how the ‘Practitioner Manual’ and BACP Competence Frameworks, c...
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Towards new goals of human happiness and well-being Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Noel Purdy
Published in Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal of Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2023)
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Adopting the circle pedagogy – relatedness, autonomy and competence Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Stephen Camilleri, Amanda Bezzina
The circle pedagogy in the Maltese Islands is practised in a range of settings, including the Personal, Social and Career Development (PSCD) subject, provided to all students within the Maltese Edu...
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Better mental health in schools: four key principles for practice in challenging times Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Helen Cowie
Published in Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal of Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2023)
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Student participation in the development of whole-school wellbeing strategies: a systematic review of the literature Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Emma Forshaw, Kevin Woods
Schools have been identified as well placed to support students’ wellbeing and encouraging the active participation of children and young people in school life is in line with current English legis...
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Understanding mental health in schools from the perspective of young people Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Peter Mulholland, Richard Parker
Increasing rates of mental health difficulties for young people in the UK are often described, though seldom from young people’s perspective or viewpoint. The Schools NorthEast Healthy MindED Commi...
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‘A completely different ballgame’: female A-level students’ experiences of academic demands, stress and coping Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Joshua Edward Stubbs, Dusana Dorjee, Poppy Nash, Lucy Foulkes
The elongation in the amount of time that adolescents remain in education in England has coincided with mounting concerns about increasing adolescent mental health problems. In light of research su...
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Pastoral care amid the cost of living crisis Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Noel Purdy
Published in Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal of Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Vol. 40, No. 4, 2022)
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The practices of pupil behaviour management according to primary pupils’ parents and teachers in Vietnam Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Ngô Vũ Thu Hằng, Vũ Thị Mai Hường
This study presented the practices of pupil behaviour management of Vietnamese primary teachers with a focus on primary pupils’ misbehaviours, and the activities the primary teachers implemented to...
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Teacher resilience in the face of uncertainty: experiences of Turkish teachers during the COVID-19 outbreak Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Bunyamin Bavli, Özge Kortel
ABSTRACT The study aims to shed light on how Turkish teachers perceive ‘teacher resilience’ in the shadow of the COVID-19 Outbreak by exploring their experiences. Phenomenological design was adopted in the study and maximum variation sampling was employed in selection of participants who consisted of 15 teachers with different educational backgrounds. Data were obtained through semi-structured in-depth
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The Art Teacher’s Guide to Exploring Art and Design in the Community Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2022-08-21 Nomisha Kurian
Published in Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal of Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2023)
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An exploratory study of university teachers’ conceptions and articulation of care amidst online teaching Pastoral Care in Education Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Anne L. L. Tang, Caroline Walker-Gleaves, Julie Rattray
This exploratory study aimed to examine university teachers’ conceptions and articulation of care amidst online teaching. The pandemic-initiated sudden changes to online platform-based teaching and...