Note: this article was recently published in Education Review by Professor Timothy Sharp (aka Dr. Happy!) Students are more likely to achieve their educational goals if they are happy. By Professor Timothy Sharp Teachers often assume that their students will be happy, engaged, and well behaved in school...
Positive education. Positive children. A positive future. This will, essentially, be my motto when I talk to a room full of primary school heads tomorrow (Wednesday) in Fremantle, West Australia. Which is why I'm really happy to share with you this great article from teh NY Times...
Well-being and education "go together" By Angela Harrison (Education correspondent, BBC News) People who are better educated are more likely to say they are satisfied with their lives, a study suggests. And they are more likely to say that the things they do are worthwhile, according to research...
By Alastair Jamieson for the Telegraph Wellington College, the boarding school that introduced lessons in wellbeing and positive psychology four years ago, is extending happiness classes to parents, too. Weekend 'taster sessions', costing Ô£40 per person, are being offered at the school in school in Crowthorne,...
In a special lecture preceding this year_ã_s first International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) World Congress in Philadelphia, Martin Seligman laid out his vision of a new field called positive education. He also stated that positive psychology is not about being pushed by the past and...
Studies Say Teachers Should 'Accentuate the Positive' Everyone admires the "Orphan Annies" of the world_ã”those resilient kids who keep on smiling, forging ahead in the face of adversity. But can you actually teach someone to be resilient and positive? Apparently so, according to Martin E. P. Seligman,...
