Positive education: positive psychology and classroom interventions

Seligman, Martin E. P.; Ernst, Randal M.; Gillham, Jane; Reivich, Karen; Linkins, Mark

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Positive education: positive psychology and classroom interventions

Seligman, Martin E. P., Ernst, Randal M., Gillham, Jane, Reivich, Karen, Linkins, Mark·2009·Oxford Review of Education

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Positive education is defined as education for both traditional skills and for happiness. The high prevalence worldwide of depression among young people, the small rise in life satisfaction, and the synergy between learning and positive emotion all argue that the skills for happiness should be taught in school. There is substantial evidence from well controlled studies that skills that increase resilience, positive emotion, engagement and meaning can be taught to schoolchildren. We present the story of teaching these skills to an entire school—Geelong Grammar School—in Australia, and we speculate that positive education will form the basis of a ‘new prosperity’, a politics that values both wealth and well‐being.

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Authors: Seligman, M. E. P., Ernst, R. M., Gillham, J., Reivich, K., & Linkins, M.
Affiliations: University of Pennsylvania (US)
Lincoln (Nebraska) Public Schools
Swarthmore College (US)
Wallingford‐Swarthmore (Pennsylvania) Public Schools
Corresponding author: Seligman, Martin E. P.
ORCID: Seligman, Martin E. P.
Gillham, Jane
Venue: Oxford Review of Education
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Published: 2009-05-27
Volume: 35
Issue: 3
Pages: 293-311
ISSN: 0305-4985 (ISSN-L)
1465-3915
DOI: 10.1080/03054980902934563
OpenAlex: W2159903595
Cited by: 2,106
References: 58
Citations by year: 2026: 185 · 2025: 174 · 2024: 139 · 2023: 189 · 2022: 161 · 2021: 188 · 2020: 203 · 2019: 159 · 2018: 110 · 2017: 126 · 2016: 120 · 2015: 120 · 2014: 91 · 2013: 63 · 2012: 43
FWCI: 32.95
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Oxford Review of Education (publishedVersion)
Works - Scholarship, Research, & Creative Expression (Swarthmore College) (submittedVersion)
Funders: National Institute for Health and Care Research
National Institutes of Health
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
Social Sciences › Education › Values and Moral Education
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Flow Experience in Various Fields
Keywords: positive education, positive psychology, classroom intervention, happiness, resilience, positive emotions, engagement, meaning, elementary school students, adolescent depression, life satisfaction, well-being

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