Childrens', parents', and teachers' perceptions of child wellbeing
By Jane Sixsmith, S. Gabhainn, C. Fleming, S. O’Higgins. 2007
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an exploration of parents', teachers' and childrens' perspectives on children's understanding of wellbeing with the aim of illuminating and comparing the conceptualisation of wellbeing from these three perspectives.Design/methodology/approach – The participatory method developed to undertake the study in this paper stems from the adoption of the “draw and write” technique, with children taking photographs rather than drawing and participating in data analysis. Children aged eight to 12 years took 723 photographs representing wellbeing, while a second set of children grouped the photographs into categories. A third set organised these categories, developing and illustrating through schemata the pattern of relationships between categories. This process was repeated for parent and teacher groups drawing on the photographs taken by the children.Findings – The findings in this paper show that differences emerged between parents and teachers and children and adu...
Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science
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- Wellbeing in schools: what do students tell us? (2018, background): “…acknowledgement of children’s competence and rights regarding participation, there is a recognised need to ask children and young people directly about their understandings and experiences in order to further develop knowledge about the concept of wellbeing (Ben-Arieh 2010; Sixsmith et al. 2007).”