Wellbeing Australia: Books

These texts either outline theory or look at ways in which social and emotional literacy might be put into practice. You are invited to submit reviews / comments or suggestions for inclusion.

Recent Books

21 Lessons to Help Students Promote a Caring School Climate by Paul Sulley. More info on www.searchinstitutestore.org

Dr. Steve Killick has collaborated with the well-regarded NCH charity in the UK to produce a book entitled "Emotional LIteracy is at the Heart of School Ethos". It is available in Australia from Footprint.

Elizabeth Holmes (2005) "Teacher Wellbeing" published by Routledge Falmer. Other books worth reading in this regard are Bill Rogers (2006) " I get by with a little help...collegial support in schools" and

Elisabeth Morris and Julie Casey (2006) "Developing Emotionally LIterate Staff" both published by Paul Chapman Publishers and available in Australia from Footprint books.

Richard Eckersley, is co-author of an index of subjective wellbeing. He has brought his work together in a book entitled "Well and Good: Morality, Meaning and Happiness" (2005) You can download a selection of articles written by Richard here.

Isaac and Ora Prilleltensky were in Australia the week of November 20th to 29th 2006 talking about Promoting Wellbeing: A change strategy for communities. Anyone who wishes to have a copy of their powerpoint presentation email isaacp@miami.edu

Maurice Elias and Harriet Arnold (eds) (2006) THe Educator's Guide to Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement Corwin Press

Robyn Hromek (2006) Emotional Coaching Lucky Duck Publishers

Sue Roffey (2006) Circle Time for Emotional LIteracy Paul Chapman Publishers

Toni Noble and Helen McGrath (2006) Bullying Solutions: Evidence-based approaches to bullying in Australian schools Pearson Education Australia

Children of the Lucky Country? How Australian Society has turned its back on children and why children matter" written by Professor Fiona Stanley, Australian of the Year 2004 and her colleagues Margo Prior and Sue Richardson has just been published byPan Macmillan. Here is one of the many recommendations:

: "Encourage, teach and model social responsibility by demonstrating a civil society in schools - that is by caring for each other individually and collaboratively.."

General

Daniel Goleman (1996), Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ. London: Bloomsbury Press

Daniel Goleman (1998), Working with Emotional Intelligence. London: Bloomsbury Press

Daniel Goleman (ed) (1997), Healing Emotions: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on mindfulness, emotions and health. Boston: Shambhala Publications

Daniel Goleman in a scientific dialogue with the Dalai Lama (2003), Destructive Emotions: How can we overcome them. New York: Random House

Lisa Feldman Barrett and Peter Salovey (eds) (2002), The Wisdom in Feeling: Psychological processes in emotional intelligence. New York: The Guilford Press

Graham Little (1999), The Public Emotions: from mourning to hope. Sydney, ABC Books. "Along with greater emotional engagement must come greater emotional literacy. If public emotions are to be productive, private emotions need to be understood and handled well, too."

Rom Harré and W Gerrod Parrott (eds) (1996), The Emotions: Social, Cultural and Biological Dimensions. London: Sage

Education

Roslyn Arnold (2005) Empathic Intelligence: Teaching, learning, relating. Sydney UNSW Press: Read the review here.

Jonathan Cohen (ed) (1999) Educating Hearts and Minds: Social and emotional learning and the passage into adolesence. New York and London: Teachers College Press

Joseph ZIns, Roger Weissberg, Margaret Wang and Herbert Walberg (eds) (2004) Building Academic Success on Social and Emotional Learning: What does the research say? New York and London: Teachers College Press . This book presents a clear evidence based rationale for addressing feelings to support learning.

Planting the Peace Virus by Robyn Hromek, District Guidance Officer in Sydney. This book outlines the journey that one school took to travel from violence to harmony. It has been published by Lucky Duck Publishing - distributed in Australia by Footprint Books

Antidote (2003), The Emotional Literacy Handbook: Promoting Whole School Strategies. London: David Fulton Publishers
[David Fulton books are distributed in Australia by Palgrave Macmillan: www.macmillan.com.au]

Katherine Weare ( 2004), Developing the Emotionally Literate School. London: Paul Chapman Publishing

Andrew Fuller (1998), From Surviving to Thriving: Promoting Mental Health in Young People. Australian Council for Education Research (ACER)

Helen McGrath & Toni Noble, 2005. Eight Ways At Once. Book 1 and 2 : Multiple
Intelligences and Revised Bloom's Taxonomy = 200 Differentiated Classroom
Strategies. Pearson Education Pearson Education Australia.

Peter Sharp (2001), Nurturing Emotional Literacy: A practical guide for teachers, parents and those in the caring professions. London: David Fulton Publishers

Jane Bluestein (2001), Creating Emotionally Safe Schools: A Guide for Educators and Parents. Florida Health Communications Inc.

Peter Salovey and David Sluyter (1997), Emotional Development and Emotional Intelligence: Educational Implications. New York: Basic Books

Marilyn Hyson (1994), The Emotional Development of Children: Building an emotion-centred curriculum. New York and London: Teachers College Columbia University

Yasmin Ajmal and Ioan Rees (eds) (2001), Solutions in Schools: Creative Applications of Solution Focused Brief Therapy with Young People and Adults. London: BT Press

Colin Newton and Derek Wilson (2002), Circles of friends. Dunstable, UK: Folens

Tina Rae (1998), Dealing with Feeling: An Emotional Literacy Curriculum. Bristol: Lucky Duck Publishing

Helen McGrath and Toni Noble (1993), Different Kids, Same Classroom. Pearson Education Australia. Meeting the challenge of teaching in the mixed ability classroom, including building a supportive classroom and ways to promote co-operative learning.

Behaviour: The following focus on constructing discourses which promote emotionally literate interaction)

Michelle McGrath (1998), The Art of Teaching Peacefully: Improving behaviour and reducing conflict in the classroom. London: David Fulton Publishers

Robert Pianta and Daniel Walsh (1996), High Risk Children in Schools: Constructing Sustaining Relationships. New York: Routledge

Sue Roffey (2004), The New Teachers’ Survival Guide to Behaviour. London: Paul Chapman / Sage

Gender

Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson (2000), Raising Cain: Protecting the emotional life of boys. London: Penguin

Articles

Nell Noddings articles about ethics and care in school communities:

Democracy in Schools. The importance of dialogue

The Whole Child

For research findings on Respect in Practice click here.

EQ Australia have an issue on Wellbeing and Resilience. If it is not in your staffroom you can order a copy from the Curriculum Corporation

Tim Corcoran on School Exclusion. challenges our responsibilities to young people.

Read the thought provoking article written for Wellbeing Australia by Brian Babington CEO of Families Australia - Whither Wellbeing

Download this article from CASEL: Social and Emotional Learning: A Framework for Promoting Mental Health and Reducing Risk Behaviours in Children and Young People.

Katherine Weare and Gay Gray (2003) What works in developing children’s social and emotional competence and wellbeing? Report for the Department of Education and Skills, UK. University of Southampton

Hilde Rapp (2003), The Importance of Emotional Literacy for Building a Peace Culture: Understanding individual and social meanings and individual and social realities in Psychotherapy and Politics International, 1(2): 77-92. London: Whurr Publishers

Last updated: 6/2/08