Art can be a way to promote and support mental health in children, and understanding children's experiences through the pandemic as seen through children's art may help support them into the future.
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Anxiety about starting school is common – among both children and parents. This can be for many reasons, but it's useful to keep in mind exposure to our fears helps reduce anxiety.
Our report examines Australia's educational performance against equity and excellence benchmarks. It finds the inequality gap is large and growing.
Children struggle amidst adversity, but these tumultuous and highly emotional times make it a critical time to teach 'resilience' – giving kids coping skills.
Some children are not socially engaging with their peers in the way they did before the pandemic. It's understandable if parents are worried.
A concerning number of children in Australia have experienced trauma. Being more sensitive to what this means can help both the child and the teacher.
Getting students to move while learning a concept helps them understand it better. And it gets them off their seats.
The effects of economic stress on children are big. Parents' anxiety about their financial situation is equivalent to the effect of a divorce, and is likely at play amid COVID-19.
During the pandemic, children’s independent mobility may be more essential than ever before.
Governments must ensure access to preschool for all children, many of whom will have had their learning and development affected by COVID-19. It will help children recover, as well as the economy.
We've got this: parents can build kids' resiliency in by focussing on what's going well, maintaining some predictability and order, modelling belief in their own abilities and caring for themselves.
Early intervention with reading challenges has very high success rates for supporting reading development, but it is much more difficult to improve reading skills in older students.
By year three, children identified as having difficulties when they start school, are around nine months behind their peers in learning.
Many children will be anxious about going back to school. Some might be excited. Either way, there are some things you can do to help ease the transition.
Most kids bounce back quickly after a disaster and there are several strategies you can use to help.
While the UK does not indefinitely detain children, there are cases where minors are held – and in extreme cases, separated from their parents.
The violence in Charlottesville affects all children, but racially motivated attacks make children of color feel particularly vulnerable. Here are some ways to protect them.
Because educating young people about mental health and well-being is no simple task
Top contributors
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Director, Center for Community Child Health Royal Children's Hospital; Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Theme Director Population Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Deputy Lead of Education Policy, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Senior lecturer, University of Melbourne
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Alfred Deakin Professor, Deakin University
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Asst Professor Population Health, University of Western Australia
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Adjunct Professor, Institute for Positive Psychology & Education, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Education Policy, UNSW
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer and Educational and Developmental Psychologist, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University - Newark
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Instructor, Division of Academic General Pediatrics, Mary Ann & J. Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program; Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago; Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
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Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
