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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?
Armed with some sense of what happiness is, its relation to suf-fering and the satisfaction of needs, and the centrality of aims-talk in education, we are prepared to explore several important sources of happiness in personal life: making a home, love of place and na-ture, parenting, and the development of personal and interpersonal 4
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This book explores what we might teach if we were to take happiness seriously as an aim of education. It asks, first, what it means to be happy and, second, how we can help children to understand what happiness is.
- Nel Noddings
- 2003
Jan 1, 2013 · This section of The Oxford Handbook of Happiness approaches the complex relationship between happiness and education from the historical, philosophical, educational, and psychological perspectives.
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.
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.
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This book explores what we might teach if we were to take happiness seriously as an aim of education. It asks, first, what it means to be happy and, second, how we can help children to understand what happiness is.