In recent decades, children’s well-being, particularly at school, has become a major political and academic issue that has gained importance both in public policy and in the social sciences.

Well-being at School uncovers and discusses the different ways in which school well-being has been defined and evaluated, by outlining the international and interdisciplinary state of the art. It presents recent and diversified empirical evidence in different European and non-European countries, which bring together perspectives that have often been arbitrarily and artificially opposed in the literature: objective well-being versus subjective well-being; adult-centered perspective versus child-centered perspective; and analysis of family determinants versus analysis of school determinants of child well-being.

This book’s originality lies in simultaneously considering the multiple dimensions of children’s well-being at school and understanding how these different determinants interact and combine, depending on the (geographical, social and family) contexts in which the children live.

Claude Martin is a sociologist, emeritus research professor at the Center for National Scientific Research (CNRS), and a member of the laboratory Arènes, University of Rennes, France. His research interests include welfare state comparison, childcare, family, parenting and long-term care policies.

Kevin Diter is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Lille and is a member of the Clersé Research Laboratory, France. His expertise lies at the intersection of the sociology of socialization, the sociology of childhood, and the sociology of emotions.