Positive Education: Basic Concept and its Need in Present Scenario

Abstract

Positive education works to combine principles of traditional education with the study of happiness and personal well-being using Martin Seligman’s PERMA model and self-values in action classification. An important goal of positive education is to reveal a combination of children’s character strengths and develop their ability to effectively engage their strengths to achieve greater success in their academic lives. In short, the aim of positive education is to enable school students, college youths to become the authors of their life stories. In positive education, teachers, parents and other school personnel are trained in health sciences. According to Martin Seligman, positive education is a response to the wide gap between what parents want for their children and what schools teach. In fact, the purpose of positive education is to solve the problems of conventional education in a positive way.