Claire Hooker

Professor Peter O’Connor from the University of Auckland suggests arts-based approaches to building resilience in students in times of disaster. ‘The world has sort of stumbled from one disaster to another and Australia certainly has — Australia has stumbled from bushfires to floods and now to the Covid-19 virus — and how we make sense of that, and how children make sense of that, and the role of schools in that is vital,’ he says.