The Project

Objectives

The project has four main goals:

1. Theory: Systematizing the main theories of quality of life in educational sciences, particularly the connection between education and the good life (Paideia-Eudaimonia).
2. Systemic and Policy Analysis: Mapping and analyzing the "Smart City Vienna Strategy" and "Vienna’s Bildungsgrätzl" to understand their approach and organization in promoting sustainable quality of life in Vienna.
3. Teachers’ Perspective: Understanding what in-service and future teachers know and think about the QoL movement, what they know and think about teaching the topic of the good life in school, and would do if they were to teach it.
4. EQoL Model: Co-developing a pedagogical model with in-service and future teachers for teaching quality of life in school. This model will also serve to guide and support future educational policies in Vienna and Austria.

Research Design

Qualitative methods:

• Semi-structured interviews with teachers, school administrators, stakeholders
• Semi-structured interviews with pupils (primary and secondary level)
• Participatory observations with phenomenological vignettes
• Participatory (action) research with stakeholders of the Bildungsgrätzl and (prospective) teachers
• Focus groups

Quantitative methods:

• Questionnaire survey with prospective and in-service teachers
• Quantitative text data mining

Mixed method:

• Quali-quantitative policy analysis
• Quali-quantitative systems analysis