This article is a reflective practice case study of my experiences teaching an innovative university-level course about happiness and wellbeing (positive education). I ponder questions such as: What is academic achievement? Can learning about happiness and wellbeing raise achievement? What does an education for the future look like? Drawing upon my own experiences of positive education, and upon a critique of the literature, I argue for a change of direction in the education system to focus on achievement and learning in terms of positive emotional and social development. This should include a shift from the obsession with standardised testing (grades, exam scores, and grade point average) to nurturing happiness and wellbeing in every aspec...
Recent years have seen much interest in positive education. In this article, we will show how person...
Although traditional conceptualizations of student success have focused on retention and grades, mor...
Past research has shown that people who have high levels of happiness show greater job performance a...
Over the past decade, positive education has emerged as a rapidly growing arm of positive psychology...
Over the past decade, positive education has emerged as a rapidly growing arm of positive psychology...
Over the past decade, positive education has emerged as a rapidly growing arm of positive psychology...
This article reviews the higher education literature surrounding happiness and related notions: sati...
This thesis is concerned with how happiness is achieved for students in secondary schools and what s...
This thesis is concerned with how happiness is achieved for students in secondary schools and what s...
This thesis is concerned with how happiness is achieved for students in secondary schools and what s...
Positive psychology has emerged as an antidote to the negativistic focus of mainstream psychology an...
In the last 20 years research on learning and instruction has increasingly integrated non-cognitive ...
Positive psychology has emerged as an antidote to the negativistic focus of mainstream psychology an...
There has been much interest in happiness over the last decade fueled by developments in neuroscienc...
This paper investigates the higher education literature surrounding happiness and related notions: s...
Recent years have seen much interest in positive education. In this article, we will show how person...
Although traditional conceptualizations of student success have focused on retention and grades, mor...
Past research has shown that people who have high levels of happiness show greater job performance a...
Over the past decade, positive education has emerged as a rapidly growing arm of positive psychology...
Over the past decade, positive education has emerged as a rapidly growing arm of positive psychology...
Over the past decade, positive education has emerged as a rapidly growing arm of positive psychology...
This article reviews the higher education literature surrounding happiness and related notions: sati...
This thesis is concerned with how happiness is achieved for students in secondary schools and what s...
This thesis is concerned with how happiness is achieved for students in secondary schools and what s...
This thesis is concerned with how happiness is achieved for students in secondary schools and what s...
Positive psychology has emerged as an antidote to the negativistic focus of mainstream psychology an...
In the last 20 years research on learning and instruction has increasingly integrated non-cognitive ...
Positive psychology has emerged as an antidote to the negativistic focus of mainstream psychology an...
There has been much interest in happiness over the last decade fueled by developments in neuroscienc...
This paper investigates the higher education literature surrounding happiness and related notions: s...
Recent years have seen much interest in positive education. In this article, we will show how person...
Although traditional conceptualizations of student success have focused on retention and grades, mor...
Past research has shown that people who have high levels of happiness show greater job performance a...