Wellbeing in the classroom
courtesy of william bukowski
This picture was taken last week in a schoolroom in Bogota, Colombia, where students of psychology professor William Bukowski were working on a study on the factors that underlie children’s academic, social, emotional and physical wellbeing.
Bukowski has done research over many years on children’s relationships with their peers.
The students helping him in this study are Felicia Meyer, Jonathan Santo, Ana Maria Velasquez and Lina Saldarriaga. Lina and Ana are from Bogota. They came to Concordia last summer to work on their doctoral degrees in developmental psychology.
Right now, the study involves two schools in Bogota, both from very poor neighborhoods. One school is coed, while the other teaches girls only. Soon they will add to the study schools from Barranquilla, a city on the Caribbean coast in the north of Colombia, and schools from Montreal.