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Journal article
Promoting students' safety and wellbeing: ethical practice in schools
Vol.50, pp.1477-1496
11/2023
PMCID: PMC9427083
PMID: 36061956
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Abstract
Although ‘child safety’ is now a national policy priority in Australia, there is little research exploring the practices in schools that contribute to children and young people’s felt sense of safety and wellbeing. Drawing on a mixed-method Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery project, this article presents findings from interviews with school staff (N = 10), leaders (N = 5) and nine focus groups with students (N = 58), in primary and secondary schools in three Australian states (New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia). We employ relational ethics, recognition theory and the theory of practice architectures to explore practices at school that support student wellbeing and safety. The findings contribute significantly to understanding the ‘bundled’ nature of current practices and the conditions that enable and constrain these. Close attention to these findings is critical as schools seek to operationalise the National Child Safe Principles and refine ongoing safeguarding procedures. The findings have informed the development of an online survey that is currently testing, on a much larger scale, which elements of ethical practice are most positively associated with students’ safety, wellbeing and recognition at school.
Details
- Title
- Promoting students' safety and wellbeing: ethical practice in schools
- Creators
- Anne Graham - Southern Cross UniversityAntonia Canosa - Southern Cross UniversityTess Boyle - Southern Cross UniversityTim Moore - Australian Catholic UniversityNicola Taylor - University of OtagoDonnah Anderson - Charles Sturt UniversitySally Robinson - Flinders University
- Publication Details
- Vol.50, pp.1477-1496
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Grant note
- This research was funded by the Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (DP180100465).
- Identifiers
- 991013053413802368
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2022 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Academic Unit
- Centre for Children and Young People; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article