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Towards a cross-disciplinary framework for promoting youth wellbeing

, 2019
The youth wellbeing literature draws upon the fields of Positive Education, Positive Youth Development, Social and Emotional Learning, Coaching and Mentoring Psychology and Quality of Life, collectively referred to as the Youth Wellbeing Fives (YWB Fives)
Vella-Brodrick, Dianne A., Ng, Amanda
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Promoting Research on Wellbeing

International Journal of Wellbeing, 2011
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Dan Weijers, Aaron Jarden, Nattavudh Powdthavee   +2 more
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Strengthening Treaty Understanding: The Role of Education in Building Durable Indigenous–State Agreements

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Education is a central mechanism for ensuring that Indigenous–State treaties are understood, supported and endure through political change. Public knowledge shapes the negotiation, acceptance, implementation and long‐term stability of agreements. In Australia, however, treaty knowledge remains fragmented.
Jacob Prehn, Harry Hobbs, Jessica Horton
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Networks for change and wellbeing newsletter 4 : March 2017 : girl-led ‘from the ground up’ policy making to address sexual violence in Canada and South Africa

, 2017
This bulletin/newsletter is the 4th edition of the “Networks for change and wellbeing newsletter” which focuses on young women’s personal and cultural experiences of growing up in sexist and sexually violent societies.
Networks for Change and Wellbeing
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The feasibility of evaluating outdoor nature-based early childhood education and care provision: a pilot quasi-experimental design

Pilot and Feasibility Studies
Background Systematic reviews have demonstrated the scarcity of well-designed evaluations investigating outdoor nature-based play and learning provision for children in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector.
Oliver Traynor, Anne Martin, Nai Rui Chng, Paul McCrorie   +3 more
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Book Review: Philosophy and Happiness

International Journal of Wellbeing, 2011
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Alicia Hall
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood, Christopher Phelps, Silvia Salazar, Rachel Ong ViforJ   +3 more
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Using wellbeing for public policy: Theory, measurement, and recommendations

, 2016
Indicators of social progress are the primary drivers of public policy.  If existing economic measures of prosperity are complemented with wellbeing metrics that better capture changes in individuals’ quality of life, decision makers will be better ...
Adler, Alejandro, Seligman, Martin E. P.
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“I don't take what's in[side] outside, I see it as a different environment”: Understanding the factors influencing outdoor play and learning implementation in Scotland’s early childhood education settings

Wellbeing, Space and Society
Scotland’s early years sector benefits from progressive policies advocating outdoor provision to support healthy child development and wellbeing, yet implementation success often varies across early childhood education (ECE) settings.
Oliver Traynor, Paul McCrorie, Nai Rui Chng, Avril Johnstone, Anne Martin   +4 more
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Caregiver Reports on the Needs and Experiences of Children Impacted by Parental Incarceration: Results From an Australian Survey

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children experiencing parental imprisonment are known to be among the most overlooked in our community. They often experience multiple and compounding disadvantages, with long‐term consequences, but receive no specialised assistance. Knowledge about these children and their families is lacking in Australia and is required to inform policy ...
Catherine Flynn, Lana Battaglia, Lorana Bartels, Susan Dennison, Susy Harrigan, Lee Huggins, Sofia Grage‐Moore   +6 more
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