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Canines in schools

Dogs in schools provide significant benefits for student wellbeing and cognitive development. They support five key dimensions of wellbeing: physical, emotional, social, cognitive, and spiritual. By integrating dogs into the classroom, students engage in physical activities, build trust and attachments, enhance social skills, and foster emotional processing. This collaboration creates a nurturing educational environment where students thrive. Various frameworks highlight the importance of these aspects, showcasing how dogs can facilitate positive change within the school community.

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Canines in schools

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  1. Canines in schools • The role of dogs in schools is an area with immense potential. In a classroom environment dogs offer benefits to the whole school community. Dogs provide an invaluable tool in the area of student wellbeing and cognitive development.

  2. Student wellbeing In the draft report Towards a Learner Wellbeing Framework for birth to year 12. (DECS 2006) there are five dimensions of student wellbeing that have been recognised.

  3. Physical Emotional Social Cognitive Spiritual

  4. Physical • physical activity • preventive health care • physical safety • nutrition • reproductive health • substance abuse

  5. Emotional • positive self-development • trust and attachment • coping • autonomy • information processing

  6. Social • positive social behaviour • empathy and sympathy • peer relationships • parent-child relationships • sibling relationships

  7. Cognitive • emotional development and control • curiosity • motivation • persistence • thinking and intelligence • memory • mastery

  8. Spiritual/beliefs/values aspects may be harder to define but refer to the need to • 'construct a framework of meaning, to make sense of the social reality, central to which are values' (Hill 2004, p. 18)

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