Transforming Teaching: Wellbeing and Professional Practice

Mathew A. White, PhD . After 20 years as a secondary school teacher and a senior leader in schools, Associate Professor White moved to academia, where he is Interim Head of the School of Education and an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Associate Professor White is also a principal fellow in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Forthcoming books include Wellbeing Education and Professional Practice (with Faye McCallum, Springer, 2022), New Research and Possibilities in Wellbeing Education (with Faye McCallum and Chris Boyle, Springer, 2023). Other notable publications include Wellbeing and Resilience Education: COVID-19 and Its Impact on Education (with Faye McCallum, Routledge, 2021), Critical Perspectives on Teaching, Learning and Leadership: Enhancing Educational Outcomes (with Faye McCallum, Springer, 2020), Future Directions in Wellbeing: Education, Organisations and Policy (with Gavin Slemp and Simon Murray, Springer, 2017) and Evidence-Based Approaches in Positive Education: Implementing a Strategic Framework for Wellbeing in Schools (with Simon Murray, Springer, 2015). In 2021, he was awarded a Fellowship of the International Positive Psychology Association. In 2020, Associate Professor White was presented the Distinguished Contribution to Research in Educational Leadership Award by the Australian Council for Educational Leaders South Australian Branch. He is Past-President of the International Positive Psychology Association Education Division.

Faye McCallum, PhD , is an award-winning researcher, and Professor of Education at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She has worked in higher education for 30 years across Australia, leading accreditation, curriculum reform and the implementation of online teaching and learning. Her most important and significant research has investigated teacher and educational leader wellbeing. She has led researchprojects to measure wellbeing, both in Australia and internationally. Professor McCallum has published extensively with over 100 publications, including a book entitled Nurturing Wellbeing Development in Education: From little things, big things grow. Her research has been cited in the 2019 Global Happiness, and Wellbeing Policy Reports tabled at the World Government Summit in Dubai. Professor McCallum is an expert consultant to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Teacher Wellbeing; was invited to author the Foreword to the W.I.S.E 2022 Report on Teacher Wellbeing. Other publications include: Wellbeing Education and Professional Practice: Transforming Teaching (Springer 2022 co-authored research book with Associate Professor Mathew White); Wellbeing and Resilience Education (Routledge 2021 co-authored research book with Associate Professor Mathew White); and, Critical Perspectives on Teaching, Learning and Leadership: Enhancing Educational Outcomes (Springer 2020 co-authored research book with Associate Professor Mathew White). The Australian Council for Educational Leaders South Australian Branch awarded her the highest honour, the 2019 Dr Alby Jones AO Gold Medal, for her contribution to the study and practice of educational leadership and wellbeing.