Introduction of Well-being at School: A Social Problem
Résumé
In recent decades, children’s well-being, particularly at school, has become a major political and academic issue that
has gained importance both in public policy and in the social sciences.
Well-being at School uncovers and discusses the different ways in which school well-being has been defined and
evaluated, by outlining the international and interdisciplinary state of the art. It presents recent and diversified empirical
evidence in different European and non-European countries, which bring together perspectives that have often been
arbitrarily and artificially opposed in the literature: objective well-being versus subjective well-being; adult-centered
perspective versus child-centered perspective; and analysis of family determinants versus analysis of school
determinants of child well-being.
This book’s originality lies in simultaneously considering the multiple dimensions of children’s well-being at school and
understanding how these different determinants interact and combine, depending on the (geographical, social and
family) contexts in which the children live.