Publisher Javier García Gómez, T3, 2º Primaria, TIC.

Happiness in our educational system: “A value with not enough value”. There is significant debate about the place of happiness in education. At an intuitive level, most people agree that education should contribute to the overall sum of human happiness... More

Happiness in our educational system: “A value with not enough value”.
There
is significant debate about the place of happiness in education.
At an intuitive level,
most people agree that education should contribute to the overall sum of human happiness and that schools should be happy places to be and that they should make children happier.

However, schools and educationalists who put their heads above the parapet
and suggest that there is a necessary link between education and happiness, sometimes find themselves caught in the crossfire.
Many objections to teaching happiness
rest on fundamental misunderstandings of what happiness might be and an ignorance of the rich variety of interpretations of the nature of happiness.
Some think that
teaching happiness means teaching children to be relentlessly positive .
Others think
it means that we should take every opportunity to boost our students self-esteem and
protect them from failure.
Others object that happiness just can t be ta Less