An agenda for well-being in ELT: an ecological perspective
By Sarah Mercer. ELT Journal, 2021
177 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Well-being is a basic human right according to the World Health Organization. It is the foundation of a life well lived and ought to be the basis of all educational endeavours and encounters. In this article, I urge ELT to make well-being a priority for research and practice. I make three main points. Firstly, we need to be serious in defining and understanding well-being for research and teaching and get beyond superficial conceptualizations, which inhibit growth in this area and meaningful debate. Secondly, we need to consider well-being for the whole ELT ecology, understanding that well-being does not reside solely within the individual but is socially situated too. Finally, I discuss learner and teacher well-being, which lie at the heart of ELT, and argue that we have a collective responsibility in the community to work towards better conditions for well-being for all members of the ELT ecology.
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Social Psychology
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In Developmental and Educational Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- Researching and Practicing Positive Psychology in Second/Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: The Past, Current Status and Future Directions (2021, background): “Within the domain of L2 education, understanding and promoting teachers’ and students’ well-being, whether at its emotional or psychological level, is very important since it lies at the heart of language teaching and learning (Mercer, 2021).”
- Social and Emotional Learning (2020, background): “Whole-School Recognition of SEL • Incorporate specific activities that focus on the development of social and emotional skills into the school’s ELT curriculum and explicitly teach strategies to promote well-being, compassion, and eco-literacy (Mercer, 2021).”