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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
DOI 10.1080/03054980902934563
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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
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
Semantic Scholar
b8d41d393bbf90546abc614ab93a18c9bd3eaa74
Cited by
2,106
References
58
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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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