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Reasons to Promote Positive Education
Positive Education is responsible for promoting well-being ecosystems, encouraging the development of people at both individual and collective levels. In this article we present all the details of a trend that has arrived to improve the academic field.
Innovating, optimizing results, or preventing problems between students and teachers are some of the most debated topics lately in the education sector, but how can we put positive education into practice? Where do we start?
Science is responsible for answering these questions reliably, and it is in this context that Positive Education emerges, defined as the application of positive psychology to the educational world.
Indeed, this psychology has little to do with always smiling or self-help, but rather it is the scientific study of optimal human functioning and its mission is to try to discover and/or promote those factors that allow both individuals and societies to flourish.
What does positive education consist of?
Positive Education is dedicated to researching, proposing, implementing and disseminating scientifically validated theories and techniques applicable to the field of education, always in a broad sense, encompassing educational institutions, educators, students and families.
In this process, we are all involved in one way or another, since how we live reflects whether we are happy, whether we know how to generate well-being and whether we are aware of our interrelationship with others and with the world around us.
For this reason, Positive Education encompasses any concept that improves our education, our optimal functioning, as well as our happiness. Some areas it covers are emotional education, optimism, creativity, sense of humor, motivation, mindfulness, strengths, resilience, gratitude, enthusiasm, self-esteem, assertiveness, and compassion, among others.
Reasons to put it into practice
To put this model into practice, it is necessary to understand that the transformation of education toward Positive Education requires a comprehensive approach. Therefore, it is crucial to consider the development of competencies and academic content, as well as the building of strengths and the promotion of well-being. Promoting the latter will allow for improved academic performance of students, their social bonds and their educational continuity.
Among other reasons, Positive Education proposes that environments should provide spaces and experiences that promote personal and social well-being. This guideline, in addition to including activities beyond the curriculum, entails a change that places well-being as a strategic and motivational factor.
In short, Positive Education proposes the transformation of the environment, improving educational quality, prevention and resolution of mental health-related problems.
Currently there is a revolution in educational systems as a result of everything that has been happening recently. Therefore, it is key to understand how technology, as an access vehicle, can be integrated with an extremely humanistic vision.
Implementing a positive education model, which consists of generating mental, physical and emotional well-being, is fundamental for student development and their capabilities.
That is why from Klarway we bring a virtual exam supervision tool that allows the development of academic and human skills, cooperating in the formation of leaders with values that promote a society in defense of human dignity.
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