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This open access handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the growing field of positive education, featuring a broad range of theoretical, applied, and practice-focused chapters from leading international experts. It demonstrates how positive education offers an approach to understanding learning that blends academic study with life skills such as self-awareness, emotion regulation, healthy mindsets, mindfulness, and positive habits, grounded in the science of wellbeing, to promote character development, optimal functioning, engagement in learning, and resilience. The handbook offers an in-depth understanding and critical consideration of the relevance of positive psychology to education, which encompasses its theoretical foundations, the empirical findings, and the existing educational applications and interventions. The contributors situate wellbeing science within the broader framework of education, considering its implications for teacher training, educationand developmental psychology, school administration, policy making, pedagogy and curriculum studies. This landmark collection will appeal to researchers and practitioners working in positive psychology, educational and school psychology, developmental psychology, education, counselling, social work and public policy.

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Author:   Margaret L. Kern ,  Michael L. Wehmeyer
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   1.370kg
ISBN:  

9783030645366

ISBN 10:   3030645363
Pages:   777
Publication Date:   25 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Section I: Overview of Positive Education.- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Positive Education.- Chapter 2: Positive Education Around the World.- Section II: Core Goals for Positive Education.- Chapter 3: Wellbeing and Flourishing.- Chapter 4: Resilience.- Chapter 5: Social and Emotional Learning.- Chapter 6: Skills for the 21st Century Workplace.- Chapter 7: Approaches to Positive Education.- Section III: Foundations of Positive Education.- Chapter 8: Strength-Based Interventions in Educational Systems.- Chapter 9: Building Positive Emotions and Playfulness.- Chapter 10: Creativity and Intelligence.- Chapter 11: Growth Mindset.- Chapter 12: Perseverance, SelfC-control, and Grit.- Chapter 13: Engagement.- Chapter 14: Mindfulness, Meditation, and Related Practices.- Chapter 15: Relationships.- Chapter 16: Meaning and Purpose in Life.- Chapter 17: Civic Character.- Chapter 17: Moral Education.- Chapter 18: Trauma Informed Approaches.- Chapter 19: Reaching the Disadvantaged.- Chapter 20: Making positive education fun.- Section IV: Enablers of Wellbeing and Resilience.- Chapter 18: Self-Determination.- Chapter 19: Positive Youth Development.- Chapter 20: Career and Life Design.- Chapter 21: Assessing and Enabling Wellbeing in the Community.- Chapter 22: Teacher and Staff Wellbeing.- Chapter 23: Positive Leadership.- Chapter 24: Positive Communities.- Section VI: Applications and Implications.- Chapter 25: Systems Approaches to Positive Education.- Chapter 26: Cultural issues in positive education.- Chapter 27: Positive Education in Practice.- Chapter 28: Integration and Visions for the Future.

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Margaret (Peggy) L. Kern is Associate Professor at the Centre for Positive Psychology at the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education, Australia. Dr Kern is Founding Chair of the Education Division of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA). You can find out more about Dr Kern’s work at www.peggykern.org.  Michael L. Wehmeyer is Ross and Mariana Beach Distinguished Professor of Special Education; Chair of the Department of Special Education; and Director and Senior Scientist, Beach Center on Disability, at the University of Kansas, United States. Dr Wehmeyer is Publications Lead for theEducation Division of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA). He has published more than 450 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and is an author or editor on 42 texts. 

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