Well-being as Freedom: Future Directions in Well-Being

Abstract

In this chapter we outline a vision to include well-being as part of a national agenda for education in the same way we teach numeracy and literacy. We argue that that quality of teaching is a critical driver and that this could be achieved through pre-service teacher training. We highlight a re-alignment in professional development, leadership and for entrance models to evolve schools from welfare to evidence-based wellbeing approaches, interventions and programs from positive psychology that have an impact on student well-being. enabling educators to teach the whole child. We argue that teachers should be taught the skills for personal well-being so that they are able to flourish before th..