Development of a support programme that connects schools and homes using Good Behaviour tickets

It is known that a pupil’s environment can influence and affect their behaviour and researchers are working to create good environments at both school and home in order that schoolchildren have the support they need to navigate life inside and outside of education. In his latest work, licensed psychologist and a certified clinical psychologist Associate Professor Kazunori Edahiro, Faculty of Human Culture and Sciences, Fukuyama University, Japan, is applying behavioural science to the creation of an environment that is easy for all youth to live in, with a key focus on using positive behaviour support and ‘good behaviour tickets’. Edahiro is interested in the influence of diagonal relationships on the development of youths and, in previous work, used the ethnography method and the Trajectory Equifinality Approach (TEA). Currently, he is working to develop a support programme that can clarify the effects and changes on the mental and behavioural aspects of teachers and caregivers and connect schools and homes through the use of good behaviour tickets. Instances of good behaviour are described by tickets that are sent home, establishing a more positive relationship between school and home. In addition to immediate benefits for individual students, the programme has the potential to be applied more widely in the education system in Japan and other countries.