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This paper explores happiness as an aim of education, particularly schooling. What role does happiness play in philosophy of education? How do critics view the aims of public schooling today and its relation to happiness? Is happiness embedded in the concept of education as an aim of education?
Jan 27, 2021 · Most positive education interventions focus on youth’s development of their personal skills and qualities, neglecting environmental factors such as cultural context, neighbourhood, socioeconomic status, physical space and other social ecological factors that impact wellbeing.
- Simon Coulombe, Kendra Hardy, Rachel Goldfarb
- 2020
Mar 20, 2024 · The report illustrates how the ‘Happy Schools’ initiative aims to create top-down and bottomup transformation, encouraging governments to recognize happiness as a core objective of education. It supports the scaling of promising practices of joyful learning from the school to the policy level.
Education aimed at happiness cannot be achieved by simply teaching about happiness. We come to flourish in important ways through experiencing flourishing. This means cultivating spaces for learning where people can be happy.
On International Day of Happiness - 27 March - UNESCO launched a new publication, ‘Why the world needs happy schools: Global report on happiness in and for learning’. The report advocates for holistic approaches to promote school happiness in education policy and practice.
The basic objective is to develop a deeper understanding of what contributes to students being happy in school. A second important goal is to examine whether happy students can also develop both important hard and soft skills.
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Mar 14, 2016 · To promote ‘happiness education' through a critical perspective means to understand the pedagogical-political commitment between teacher and students, and between students, that creates the possibilities for regaining the pleasure to teach as well as that of studying within the educational setting.
