Case study of a school wellbeing initiative: Using appreciative inquiry to support positive change
| dc.contributor.author | Waters, L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | White, M. | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Drawing from the fields of positive psychology, positive organizational scholarship and educational administration, this case study reports on the process used in a large K-12 school to implement the strategic goal of fostering student wellbeing. This case study outlines the three strategic phases used to build wellbeing over a two-and-a-half-year time period: 1) development; 2) implementation; and 3) monitoring. The school aligned its change process to the goal of achieving wellbeing by adopting appreciative inquiry as the overarching change approach. Appreciative inquiry is a systematic, holistic, and collaborative methodology that follows a strengths-based model of change. Through the use of appreciative inquiry, 15 bottom-up (instigated by students and staff) and top-down (instigated by leadership) initiatives were generated over a two-and-a-half-year period. This paper provides an applied example of how AI can be woven into a strategic change process to support the wellbeing of students. The paper aims to contribute to the rapidly developing field of positive education. | |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | Lea Waters, Mathew White | |
| dc.identifier.citation | International Journal of Wellbeing, 2015; 5(1):19-32 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.5502/ijw.v5i1.2 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1179-8602 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1179-8602 | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | White, M. [0000-0002-3037-9352] | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2440/124205 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | International Journal of Wellbeing | |
| dc.rights | Copyright belongs to the author(s). Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) | |
| dc.source.uri | https://www.internationaljournalofwellbeing.org/index.php/ijow/article/view/328 | |
| dc.subject | appreciative inquiry; positive psychology; positive organizational scholarship; educational administration; wellbeing | |
| dc.title | Case study of a school wellbeing initiative: Using appreciative inquiry to support positive change | |
| dc.type | Journal article | |
| pubs.publication-status | Published |
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