The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Education

This open-access handbook provides a comprehensive overview of positive education, blending academic study with life skills to promote character development, optimal functioning, and resilience. It explores the relevance of positive psychology to education, including its theoretical foundations, empirical findings, and educational applications, and is aimed at researchers and practitioners in the fields of positive psychology, educational and school psychology, developmental psychology, education, counseling, social work, and public policy.

Format: Hardback
Length: 777 pages
Publication date: 25 June 2021
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This comprehensive open-access handbook offers a thorough exploration of the rapidly evolving field of positive education, featuring a diverse array of theoretical, applied, and practice-oriented chapters authored by esteemed international experts. It showcases how positive education provides a holistic approach to understanding learning, seamlessly integrating academic knowledge with essential life skills such as self-awareness, emotion regulation, healthy mindsets, mindfulness, and positive habits, all grounded in the science of wellbeing. By promoting character development, optimal functioning, engagement in learning, and resilience, this approach aims to foster a positive school environment that nurtures students' overall well-being.

The handbook provides a comprehensive and critical examination of the significance of positive psychology in education, encompassing its theoretical foundations, empirical findings, and existing educational applications and interventions. The contributors contextualize wellbeing science within the broader realm of education, considering its implications for teacher training, education and developmental psychology, school administration, policymaking, pedagogy, and curriculum studies.

This landmark collection is of immense value to researchers and practitioners engaged in positive psychology, educational and school psychology, developmental psychology, education, counseling, social work, and public policy. It serves as a valuable resource for advancing knowledge and fostering positive change in educational settings worldwide.

Weight: 1346g
Dimension: 163 x 243 x 52 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030645366
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021