The fourth Fulbright-Cognition Scholar in Education Research for 2010, Dr Veronica O’Toole from the University of Canterbury has recently completed her study in the United States. A full report of her research will be published next year and here, she writes about the life-changing experience of this academic adventure.
I visited two American universities - Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas and Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut - to work with experts there and develop a research-informed emotional literacy programme to improve social and emotional wellbeing across whole New Zealand school communities, from school leaders and teachers down to students.