Happiness and Education

TL;DR: The authors explored elementary school teachers' lived experiences and perceptions surrounding the implementation of an antibullying program within the public school system, and found that teachers felt their initiative was making a positive difference in their school; however, this did not come without some resistance from staff.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used questionnaires and interviews to inquire 120 elementary school teachers from Ma Erkang Elementary School in Sichuan Province, China, and found that rural teachers satisfaction of economic income and sense of happiness is slightly higher than urban teachers.

Abstract: Many philosophers of education as well as researchers have highlighted the importance of life skills training in education Recently, the idea of life-wise instruction has been imported into the field of English language teaching after the introduction of notions such as applied ELT (Pishghadam, 2011) and life syllabus (Pishghadam & Zabihi, 2012) This study was conducted to analyze L2 learners’ level of life satisfaction and its relationship with their ESP teachers’ life-responsive language teaching perceptions For this purpose, two instruments, ie the Life-Responsive Language Teaching Beliefs Scale (LLTBS) and the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), were administered to Iranian ESP teachers (N = 164) and a sizeable sample of their learners (N = 800), respectively For one thing, analysis of the questionnaire results displayed low levels of life-wise language teaching perceptions on the part of ESP teachers and low levels of satisfaction with life among learners The results also demonstrated how language learners’ scores on the satisfaction with life scale were significantly correlated with ESP teachers’ life-responsive teaching beliefs It was thus concluded that through the integration of life skills in ESP classes, materials developers, syllabus designers and ESP practitioners may become empowered to enhance learners’ quality of life

TL;DR: The GENERATE project as discussed by the authors ) is a pilot research project conducted by 12 artists and their children 3-14, who allowed their own children unlimited access to their own artists' work.

TL;DR: Dewey's "Common Sense" as mentioned in this paper explores the nature of knowledge and learning as well as formal education's place, purpose, and process within a democratic society, and it continues to influence contemporary educational thought.

TL;DR: The best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century, is Experience and Education as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Noddings as mentioned in this paper argues that the ethical behaviour that grows out of natural caring has at its core as care-filled receptivity to those involved in any moral situation, and leaves behind the rigidity of rule and principle to focus on what is particular and unique in human relations.

TL;DR: In The Public and Its Problems, a classic of social and political philosophy, John Dewey exhibits his strong faith in the potential of human intelligence to solve the public's problems as mentioned in this paper.