The first edition of Integrating Character and Wellbeing Education in Schools: A New Practical Model to Enhance Student Flourishing sets out both theoretically and practically how the strengths of character education and wellbeing education can be maximised through synergic interactions – in the overall service of student flourishing. This publication complements The Jubilee Centre Framework for Character Education in Schools, from which much of the advice and guidance in this document is derived.
Given the recent policy interest in balancing the overall aims of education to include a focus on student flourishing, a practical question arises of how to operationalise and execute this aim educationally, in a school context.
Character education and wellbeing education both have a venerable theoretical provenance and a significant history of practical implementations. Both approaches bring salient theoretical and practical strengths to the table, however, attempts to implement these approaches have typically run on separate tracks without much crossover work or collaboration.
The Integrating Character and Wellbeing Education in Schools document aims to bridge this gap by introducing, for the first time, the Integrated Character and Wellbeing Theoretical Model and the RIPPLE practical approach. Both models and approaches will inevitably require adaptation by researchers, educators, and other professionals to ensure they are responsive to the unique needs, priorities, and ethos of individual schools, as well as the students, families, and communities they serve. Although grounded in existing literature and research on character and wellbeing education, the approaches introduced within this document will also need to be monitored and evaluated throughout implementation. Findings from this process should inform ongoing refinement and future iterations.
It is hoped that this first edition of Integrating Character and Wellbeing Education in Schools: A New Practical Model to Enhance Student Flourishing will support schools and other educational institutions in taking meaningful steps toward embedding character and wellbeing education, ultimately contributing to the flourishing of their students and the wider society.
Integrating Character and Wellbeing Education in Schools: A New Practical Model to Enhance Student Flourishing Frist Edition sets out both theoretically and practically how the strengths of character education and wellbeing education can be maximised through synergic interactions.
This document introduces the Integrated Character and Wellbeing Theoretical Model and the RIPPLE practical approach.
The RIPPLE Approach to Character and Wellbeing in Schools provides a tool through which school leaders and teachers can structure, think through, and reflect on the integration of character education and wellbeing in practice.
The concise version of the RIPPLE Approach to character and wellbeing in schools offers a more accessible overview to help school leaders and teachers structure, reflect on, and integrate wellbeing education within their current or developing character education practices.