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Southall, Anne E.; Gardner, Fiona; Baxter, Lindy P. – Australian Educational Researcher, 2022
Educators are involved in complex, interpersonal and emotionally demanding work on a daily basis. In many schools this includes working with students with extreme and challenging behaviours, many of whom come from traumatic backgrounds. This work requires educators to have high levels of self-awareness, emotional understanding, empathy and calm.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Income Students, Socioeconomic Status, Trauma
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Gardner, Fiona; Southall, Anne E.; Baxter, Lindy – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
Teachers are faced with an increasingly complex environment in which they need significant support to foster the classroom climates their students benefit from. Developing a critical understanding of the school and broader social context can foster awareness of the 'bigger picture' that influences the school community individually and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflection, Principals, Teacher Attitudes
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Southall, Anne E.; Baxter, Lindy P.; Gardner, Fiona – Australian Journal of Education, 2023
Trauma-informed practice in education applies neuroscientific knowledge of the profound impact of early childhood trauma on learning and emphasises the central role of the student-teacher relationship in recovery. In adopting trauma-informed understandings, teachers are required to change their current practices and strengthen their relationships…
Descriptors: Trauma, Trauma Informed Approach, Comprehension, Educational Practices
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Baxter, Lindy P.; Gardner, Fiona; Southall, Anne E. – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2023
School closures and the move to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic transformed teaching and learning in Australian schools. Educators experienced personal and professional challenges as they rapidly responded to the needs of their school communities and managed their own emotional reactions. Eleven educators at two Victorian schools in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Closing, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Kennedy, Carla J.; Gardner, Fiona; Southall, Anne – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objective: This article offers a framework to guide schools in developing a compassionate culture. Using a social constructionist/critical perspective, five spheres of work are identified to help schools achieve this goal. Framing death, dying and bereavement from a health promoting perspective, they involve challenging current cultural…
Descriptors: Guidelines, School Culture, Altruism, Death
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Theobald, Jacqui; Gardner, Fiona; Long, Natasha – Journal of Social Work Education, 2017
This article explores the process and outcomes of teaching critical reflection to social work students in an Australian university, based on our experience with teaching critical reflection. The application by students of a particular model of critical reflection to their learning experiences during field education placements is described and…
Descriptors: Social Work, Field Experience Programs, Reflection, Teaching Methods