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What about the students' well-being?
DKK 3 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for a project that puts students' voices at the center, so that they are the ones to define how they thrive and what well-being means to them.
Associate Professor Eva Lykkegaard, Department of Media, Design and Educational Science, has received a grant of DKK 3 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark's thematic funds for Learning and well-being in primary and lower secondary schools with the project "Students' voices on wellbeing (VoiceWell) - Conceptions, measurements, and interventions".
How is the well-being of pupils in primary school going? Some reports and research centres show that there is increasing dissatisfaction in primary and lower secondary schools, while the latest national well-being survey from the Ministry of Children and Education showed that approximately 87% of pupils have the highest possible self-reported well-being. The different results may be due to the fact that well-being is understood and measured differently in the individual surveys.
The students' own experiences of well-being matter in the project
The project "VoiceWell" includes the students' own definitions and experiences of well-being. The purpose is to gather more knowledge about how well-being can be understood and measured in Danish primary and lower secondary schools, when the students' own experiences and definitions of well-being are also included. The project challenges and nuances the existing measurements and results by examining which elements well-being consists of and how it can best be measured.
Students from grades 7-9 at 15 different primary schools participate in the project. The schools have been selected so that they vary as much as possible according to the social and economic background of the pupils.
Meet the researcher
Associate Professor Michael Paulsen is a researcher at The Department of Design, Media and Educational Science