- Thursday, 4 April 2019
10:30 am - 11:30 am - CB08.03.005
Gratitude has the power to shift how we – and our students – perceive and experience the teaching and learning process. Thinking from a foundation of gratitude allows us to recognise the privilege we have of being able to teach and learn in a university and how we might move beyond a ‘culture of complaint’ to towards practices that make learning as positive a process as possible. This presentation draws on decades of research on the role of gratitude in a diversity of educational contexts and explores how gratitude has powerful effects upon student learning and experience. Participants will leave the presentation with a deepened understanding of the concept of gratitude and its place in our teaching as well as the contemporary world. We will address:
- How gratitude can enhance our thinking, learning and leading processes.
- How gratitude can assist in building and maintaining flourishing relationships needed to enhance learning and build collegiality
- How we can become more aware of the social impact of our inner attitudes
Email: Kerry.Howells@utas.edu.au or visit: www.kerryhowells.com
About Kerry
Dr Kerry Howells is an academic and teacher educator in the Faculty of Education at the University of Tasmania. Her research spans over two decades of critical inquiry into the role of gratitude in education. This research is a philosophical exploration of gratitude and she investigates the contextual influences on the meaning and practical implementation. She has a particular interest in cross-cultural lenses of gratitude and their implications for communication and has studied this in the context of Australian indigenous and African indigenous cultures. Her decades of research on the role of gratitude in education has demonstrated that students’ learning is influenced both by their own practices of gratitude and by the gratitude expressed and modelled by their teachers and school leaders. Kerry has published academic papers that report on her findings in the areas of school leadership and teaching, pre-service teacher education, indigenous education, early childhood education, and academic learning. Dr Howells’ book, Gratitude in Education: A Radical View, has encapsulated many case studies and has been used to guide educational programs, theory and professional book clubs globally and in a range of contexts. Kerry has recently undertaken research projects in the role of gratitude in early childhood leadership, in elite sport, and in the quality of life of cancer patients and their carers.
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