From 11.59pm last night, face masks were made mandatory for secondary students and teachers onsite in schools throughout Melbourne ...
Teachers can turn around anti-mask attitudes, expert says
The psychology behind people’s reluctance to sport a face mask in public is rooted in feelings of fear, uncertainty and the need to maintain a level of autonomous control – but Australian teachers have a critical role to play in switching young people’s perceptions, an expert has said.
Rather than buy into the rhetoric that masks are a means of unwanted government control, an expert is calling on teachers to show students how wearing one can be a deeply empowering act.