Mission Statement

Any sustainable vision for the future must be built upon the rights of all citizens to mental and physical health. Educators are in a key position to contribute to systematically promoting and supporting the well-being and health literacy of themselves and their learners. Well-being is a vital life skill and we cannot leave its development to chance. We believe that language education can play a vital role in integrating the teaching of life skills including well-being competences alongside linguistic competences. Inspired by Positive Education, we have called our language and life skills approach ‘Positive Language Education’. Ultimately, we believe an integrated approach to language and well-being life skills can be motivating and empowering for both teachers and learners alike.

A well-being agenda necessitates sustainable and systematic institutional and policy support. A first critical step is to make language teacher well-being a priority. We must begin by supporting and nurturing the well-being of teachers so that they are in the best position to positively model and teach well-being life skills to their learners alongside language. Learner and teacher well-being are two sides of the same coin (Roffey, 2012).