Potential-Focused Learning in Sustainable Schools

Reviewing the Potential of Virtual Learning Environments in Schools

This paper considers the potential of Virtual Learning Environments in schools focusing on 2 distinct user groups. Firstly, the children and teachers engaged in the learning situation, and secondly, the stakeholders, that is the policy makers and educational authorities. Several VLEs are reviewed identifying high user acceptance and interest. The paper then considers educational policy and appr...

Educating for a healthy, sustainable world: an argument for integrating health promoting schools and sustainable schools.

Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth and the British government's Stern Review of the economics of climate change have provided heightened awareness of how humans are over-stretching the Earth's life support systems. The health of human populations and the health of global ecosystems are inextricably linked and the need for fundamental changes in how we live is becoming impossible to ignore. W...

Policies and outcomes for UK sustainable schools

Educational approaches to social-emotional learning in schools

The School-based interventions seek to identify and administrate the affecting changes on important factors of classroom processes that predict student’s academic and social-emotional development. One of the affecting factors contributing to the improvement of the classroom quality and interactions is social-emotional learning. Social-emotional learning processes for integrating of thought, fee...

Building a Sustainable Approach to Mental Health Work in Schools

Sustainability is a major challenge to mental health work in schools, and many initiatives started by wellmeaning individuals and agencies fade quickly. This paper outlines some key actions that can be taken to ensure that mental health work is sustained, as well as introduced, in schools. These actions include demonstrating that mental health work meets educational goals such as learning and t...