Title
Resilience, Character Strengths and Flourishing: A Positive Education Workshop for Singapore Teachers
Document Type
Thesis or dissertation
Date of this Version
2011
Abstract
Positive education, or teaching the skills of well-being through direct instruction and the curriculum, aims to teach children the skills to build resilience, capitalize on strengths and systematically build the pillars for a flourishing life. Positive education can succeed amidst a supportive school environment and well-equipped teachers that inculcate the right values and character. Given that school-going children spend more than fifty percent of their time in school, it is thus imperative that teachers be trained with the skills of well-being. This paper provides an introduction to positive psychology (the foundation for positive education), describes the need for positive education in Singapore schools and proposes a workshop to equip secondary/high-school teachers with the skills and knowledge of resilience, character strengths and a flourishing life – the elements of which are summarized as PERMA (positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning & achievement) (Seligman, 2011).
Keywords
positive education, resilience, character strengths
Topic
Education, Well-Being/Flourishing
Format
Workshop
Date Posted: 19 December 2014