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Positive education: positive psychology and classroom interventions
Abstract
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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Metadata
- 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.
- 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
- OpenAlex
- W2159903595
- Semantic Scholar
- b8d41d393bbf90546abc614ab93a18c9bd3eaa74
- Cited by
- 2,106
- References
- 58
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- 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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