
For Flourishing's Sake
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Frederika Roberts provides clear thinking, guidance and inspiration to help you introduce enhance or expand positive education in your school. Drawing on interviews with pioneering school leaders and teachers from across the globe, Roberts weaves real life examples with research backed expert advice on all aspects of integrating character education in schools, including chapters on cultural context, leadership, and staff training.
This empowering, strengths-based book is a friendly companion providing the encouragement you need, along with a healthy dose of practical ideas, to help your school and each individual in its community to flourish.
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- Intro
- For Flourishing's Sake
- Cover
- By the same author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- What are Positive and Character Education?
- Are 'Character Education' and 'Positive Education' interchangeable terms?
- How will this book help you?
- A few words about the themes and case studies
- How to read this book
- Over to you!
- 1. Aims of Positive Education
- Education vs Positive Education
- Reaching for the stars
- 2. Unique Cultural Context
- Will Positive Education work everywhere?
- Positive Education at all stages of education
- Spotlight 1: Geelong Grammar School
- 3. Goals Assessment
- Goals provide direction
- Goals support future evaluation
- 4. Evaluation
- Evaluation for internal purposes
- Evaluation for external purposes
- 5. Leadership
- Positive Education-focused leadership
- Accessible leaders
- Role modelling
- Anyone can be a leader
- Spotlight 2: Lancot Challenger Academy
- 6. Ethos and Policies
- Culture/ethos
- Policies
- 7. Visibility and Physical Environment
- Positive physical environment
- Visible Positive Education
- Spotlight 3: National and International Initiatives
- 8. Training
- Continuing Professional Development
- Initial Teacher Training
- 9. Well-Being/Character Curriculum
- Do we need a well-being/character curriculum?
- Taught Positive Education in practice
- 10. Embedded Well-Being/Character Learning
- Positive Education embedded in the academic curriculum
- Positive Education embedded in other school activities
- Well-being and character learnt from role models
- 11. Targeted Interventions
- Targeted interventions for children
- Targeted interventions for staff
- 12. Engagement and Reach
- Ownership
- Community
- Parents
- 13. Turning Dreams into Reality
- How does it feel?
- What strengths do you need?
- What do you dream of?
- Appendix: The Roots of the 'LeAF' Tree
- References
- Further Reading
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