Thomas Falkenberg – författare

By its very nature, school education is concerned with student well-being. Written by Canadian education scholars from a Manitoba-based research group, Well-Being and Well-Becoming in Schools aims to develop the notion that what we wish for our children is their well-being and well-becoming as they live their lives. This collection brings education scholars together to focus on a timely topic that has been of rapidly increasing interest to the research and education communities: student well-being and flourishing schools.Contributors address a broad range of issues that arise from this position to create a rich and integrated understanding of the topic. Chapters focus on foundational issues, conceptual issues, socio-cultural and organizational issues, and pedagogical and curricular issues. Ultimately, Well-Being and Well-Becoming in Schools weaves together substantial ideas to create an integrative framework that will not only serve as a guide for further research, but also for school educational leaders and educators to implement the idea of making school education primarily about student well-being.

Flourishing Through the Art of Living is a theoretical study of school education which begins by questioning its purpose. The book provides an answer to this question that is grounded in a view of what “flourishing” means for humans living in the social order of high modernity, and outlines the implications on the institutional, curricular, and pedagogical aspects of school education. Education professor Thomas Falkenberg argues that school education has to address developmental aspects of flourishing as part of its mandate in order to contribute in a very substantial way to the developing political and societal concern for human flourishing. The book first explicates the specific demands that living in high modernity of the 21st century has on humans and then goes on to develop an understanding of the specificity of human existence and functioning. Next, the author expounds on an understanding of human flourishing as it is relevant to living in high modernity; and finally, proposes an approach to school education that supports such flourishing. Flourishing Through the Art of Living is an interdisciplinary investigation that advances a vision for school education that will infuse sustained meaning, purpose, and hope in the lives of students.