Author: Robert Dunlop Publisher: Edumatch ISBN: 9781970133578 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 254
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This book will get you thinking about how happy you are in your career and give you practical strategies to make changes that will truly impact your happiness. Packed with research and inspiring stories, you will end each chapter inspired and excited to try new job-embedded ways to find more joy at work.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1590178955 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 160
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AN NYRB Classics Original In 1869, at the age of twenty-four, the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career. Then the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner transformed his ambitions. The genius of such thinkers and makers—the kind of genius that had emerged in ancient Greece—this alone was the touchstone for true understanding. But how was education to serve genius, especially in a modern society marked more and more by an unholy alliance between academic specialization, mass-market journalism, and the militarized state? Something more than sturdy scholarship was called for. A new way of teaching and questioning, a new philosophy . . . What that new way might be was the question Nietzsche broached in five vivid, popular public lectures in Basel in 1872. Anti-Education presents a provocative and timely reckoning with what remains one of the central challenges of the modern world.
Author: Nel Noddings Publisher: ISBN: 9781107131538 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 308
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How can we take happiness seriously as an aim of education? Noddings discusses the contributions of making a home, parenting, cherishing a place, the development of character, interpersonal growth, finding work that one loves, and participating in a democratic way of life. She explores ways to make schools happy places.
Author: Suzanne Dailey Publisher: ASCD ISBN: 1416631674 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 234
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Being happy both at home and at work means we're not just cheerier, but more clear-eyed and effective at what we do. But happiness takes practice and ongoing contemplation. In this inventive new book—part professional development resource, part personal journal—educator, author, and podcaster Suzanne Dailey contends that small shifts bring big gifts: that is, small positive changes, practiced over time, will help you feel more balanced, content, and aligned. To help you on this path, Dailey provides 40 readings and reflections, aligned to the weeks of the school year and designed to ensure that you glean joy and insight from every moment inside and outside the classroom. In these pages, you'll find * Reflection activities for assessing the health of your relationships—not only with coworkers and students, but also with family and friends. * Inspiring stories about educators who have sought and found ways to improve their practice by following the tenets of positive psychology. * Weekly goals for shifting your thinking and developing more positive habits of mind. * "Report cards" for assessing your progress on the book's challenges and goals. * Minilessons you can use to share your new learning with students and influence classroom culture and community. Steeped in the teachings of positive psychology and fired up with a passion for teaching, Dailey mines both her own experiences and the insights of psychological thought leaders to provide this indispensable resource for educators at all levels.
Author: Vandana Chaudhary Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 270
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Ever since mankind has thought that we have to be civilized, socialized, live in harmony with each other, leaving our earth safe for generations to come, making air and water cleaner for generations to come and leaving these clean, since then we have intensified the practice of understanding, explaining and learning and starts teaching each other and as a result, we have conceptualized schools for our children and strive to show them systematically to our own, our families, the responsibilities towards our society, our earth and environment, and how we have to prepare our children for all these responsibilities, prepare them and for these purposes, a program of education has been prepared in schools and different-different countries and civilizations in their own ways have prepared these programs according to their own needs and presented it to their children in schools. In order to teach these programs methodically to children, educational plans, arrangements and a class of teachers have been prepared. It is only natural that the more we learn, the more civilized and gentle we become, but it has also been seen that this so-called knowledge gives us somewhere with the feeling that I have come to know everything and now I can teach others and in the importance of teaching this, we go through the airs and this pride starts to appear in our words, thoughts and behavior and it is a basic vision than to see others as poor and ignorant. A disorder is created that causes our learning to stop and at the same time, we prove to be obstructive instead of helping others learn. When the teacher is presented in front of the children in the classroom, it is readily accepted by the children, just like the parents, because the children believe that school is also the form of home and we should learn here to live confidently for the life ahead of us. To be prepared for the big reason is also that learning is the living tendency of human beings and it happens naturally. All organisms have the ability to learn naturally and accordingly they also have learning instruments. The systems of education, the concerns of education, basically have to accept that every child is ready to learn. The basic tendency of learning is inherent in all children. All children are capable of learning, so one can learn this thing; one cannot learn should not be born out. All the teachers will have to reflect on their behavior that we are all in the learning phase, only the difference of experience has happened. I am more experienced than you and all of you will go through learning experiences as life progresses. Because school is a social responsibility, the experiences here will be a little more organized, which has been thought by the system of education and some experienced teachers that such experiences will take our children on the right path according to our education concerns. This book makes a small effort in this direction that let us all present ourselves to our children in the spirit of learning so that we can connect, meet, and integrate with our children so that we prove to be helpful in their learning and be not obstructive. Let us take a pledge to be helpful in the learning of our children and present ourselves to the children with the desire to remain in the learning moods forever.
Author: Richard Layard Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101117710 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 295
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There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence shows that on average people have grown no happier in the last fifty years, even as average incomes have more than doubled. The central question the great economist Richard Layard asks in Happiness is this: If we really wanted to be happier, what would we do differently? First we'd have to see clearly what conditions generate happiness and then bend all our efforts toward producing them. That is what this book is about-the causes of happiness and the means we have to effect it. Until recently there was too little evidence to give a good answer to this essential question, but, Layard shows us, thanks to the integrated insights of psychology, sociology, applied economics, and other fields, we can now reach some firm conclusions, conclusions that will surprise you. Happiness is an illuminating road map, grounded in hard research, to a better, happier life for us all.
Author: Phil Mathe Publisher: John Catt ISBN: 1915361761 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 297
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Happiness Factories explores the ideas, concepts and arguments behind an expanded focus in physical education beyond just the physical. It attempts to discuss the value and benefits of identifying other aspects - whether we call these 'holistic strands', 'character traits', 'life skills' or something else - that we can introduce into our curriculum design to identify other areas that our subject potentially touches on and influences. Taking the reflections and thoughts of PE educators, leaders and academics from across the world, Happiness Factories will seek to offer reflections and practical ideas for adapting PE provision to widen the impact for all pupils, regardless of their specific contexts and the book argues that a physically rich, dynamic and context-driven curriculum approach will expand opportunities for success for all, in turn inspiring future generations of PE pupils to strive for greater engagement, understanding and progression in all aspects of PE. Happiness Factories is the story of the author's career in PE, reflecting on the lessons he has learned, with the successes (and failures) along the way. It presents an alternative view of what modern, meaningful PE can look like and encourages all PE teachers, regardless of their unique context, to reflect on their own practice and the emphasis of the provision they give to their pupils.
Author: Margaret L. Kern Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030645371 Category : Child psychology Languages : en Pages : 788
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"The approaches outlined in this volume will help expand the narrow focus on academic success to include psychological well-being for students and educators alike. It is a must-read for anyone interested in how positive outcomes such as life satisfaction, positive emotion, and meaning and purpose can be optimized in the educational settings." -- Judith Moskowitz, PhD MPH, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA, IPPA President 2019-2021 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, education and 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. 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 the Education 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 of 42 texts. .
Author: Daniel Wong Publisher: Morgan James Publishing ISBN: 161448127X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 259
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The Happy Student is written by a student for students. Daniel Wong doesn't have a PhD in education or psychology, but his transformation from unhappy overachiever to happy straight-A student has given him unique insight into what motivates students intrinsically. By sharing with readers his personal story and the five-step program he has developed, unmotivated students everywhere will understand how they, too, can find deep satisfaction in the pursuit of academic success.
Author: Robert Dunlop
Author: Nel Noddings
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Author: Nel Noddings
Author: Suzanne Dailey
Author: Vandana Chaudhary
Author: Richard Layard
Author: Phil Mathe
Author: Margaret L. Kern
Author: Daniel Wong