How two English Primary Schools Promote Wellbeing

Why schools should promote students' health and wellbeing.

1Institute of Education, University of London, London WC1H 0AL, UK; 2Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; 3DECIPHer, Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, Cardiff, UK; 4Medical Research Council/Chief Scientist Office Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK ; 5University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK; 6Scho...

Innovation in English language teaching in Hong Kong primary schools: One step forward, two steps sideways?

Drawing on a number of recent research studies, this article evaluates the process of implementation of a more student-centred task-oriented approach to English language teaching in Hong Kong primary schools. The reform, essentially a top-down system-level initiative strongly influenced by curriculum developments in the UK and Australia, called for sweeping changes to existing learning and teac...

Power, agency and middle leadership in English primary schools

Pupil composition and accountability: An analysis in English primary schools

This paper examines the role of social class and prior achievement composition effects on pupils’ progress and the judgements made about school performance. It finds that there are small but significant compositional effects on pupil progress raising questions about how pupils can best be allocated to schools. Comparisons between the official contextual value addedmodel and one that includes co...

Persuasion Artifices to Promote Wellbeing

We propose a theory of a-rational persuasion in which we integrate emotional and non emotional strategies by arguing that they both imply reasoning and planning abilities in the two participants. We show some examples of texts from a corpus of persuasion messages in the healthy eating domain and propose a formalism to represent this knowledge. The final goal of our research is to simulate user-...