Children's Social and Emotional Wellbeing in Schools : A Critical Perspective

This book challenges the concept of wellbeing as applied to children, particularly in a school-based context. Taking a post-structural approach, it suggests that wellbeing should be understood, and experiences revealed, at the level of the subjective child. This runs counter to contemporary accounts that reduce children's wellbeing to objective lists of things that are needed in order to live well. This book will be useful for academics and practitioners working directly with children, and anyone interested in children's wellbeing.

Debbie Watson is a Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies at University of Bristol. She has experience in children's social and emotional learning and children's rights. Carl Emery is a lecturer in Social & Personal Development and Conflict Management. He teaches at Warwick University whilst completing his PhD at Manchester University. Phil Bayliss is recently retired as a Senior Lecturer in Education, Disability and Inclusion at the University of Exeter. He has researched inclusion with regard to interpersonal relationships and is now working as an independent researcher.