Trainee teachers' physical and mental wellbeing: a study of university and school experience provision.

Grant type: Themed funding: Student Well-being
Round: Student well-being
Amount awarded £10,000.00
Leader(s): Miss Jan Huyton and Lalage Sanders
Organisation: University of Wales Institute, Cardiff
Contact Email: jhuyton@uwic.ac.uk
Contact phone: 029 2041 6499
Partners:
Dr Richard Eke
School of Education, University of the West of England
Zoe Williamson
Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
Start Date: 1 March 2010
End Date: 30 June 2011

This study focuses on wellbeing of PGCE/PGDE students, the provision of support and the impact of Fitness to Teach guidelines. It involves three cases studies, exploring institutional policy and the perceptions of staff and students to elicit key issues, and exploits Web 2.0 technologies to stimulate debate across the sector.