Research Report: The Academic Wellness and Educational Success

Abstract

There is a need to explore how South African correctional schools are run and how teachers enhance the wellness dimensions of juvenile offenders so that upon release they are smoothly reintegrated into society. The attainment of wellness dimensions in an individual is crucial as they enable him or her to recognise the importance of interdependence, working together, and creating harmony in his or her society (Schaffer, 2000). As an academic involved in teacher training programmes, I was interested in seeing how juvenile offender learners’ academic wellness is. Hence, the purpose of this study was to explore the academic wellness of juvenile offender learners in a correctional school in order to find ways in which learners’ academic wellness can further be supported and enhanced.