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Kurt Wise; Laura Bruns – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
Topics in death and dying education classes can be troubling for students, some of whom may have enrolled in such classes in order to seek help. This paper contains recommendations regarding happiness-related exercises that could be employed when teaching death and dying classes from a communications perspective in general education programs. At…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Death, Psychological Patterns, Positive Attitudes
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Zusho, Akane; Kumar, Revathy; Bondie, Rhonda S. – Educational Psychologist, 2023
In the liberatory spirit of Black scholars and honoring the pioneering work of motivation theorists dedicated to a democratic vision of education, this article calls for a new paradigm of standards-based reform. Specifically, we maintain that current standards largely reflect the interests of White, male elites and elevates the economic agenda…
Descriptors: Fear, Psychological Patterns, Standards, Educational Change
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Todd Mitchell – English Journal, 2025
A teacher and author shares vital ways to help students counter climate despair with hope, agency, imagination, and activism.
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Expectation, Climate
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Szarkowski, Amy; Lindow-Davies, Candace – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2022
Fostering Joy is a movement that began in 2017 to support the intentional practice of looking for and encouraging joyful moments between families and/or caregivers and their children who are deaf or hard of hearing. The aim of Fostering Joy is to spark collaboration among families, caregivers, professionals, and adults who are deaf or hard of…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Positive Attitudes, Family Relationship
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Hurst, Julie – Childhood Education, 2021
Positive Education is the name given to Positive Psychology when it is applied in schools. It is an evidence-based discipline with decades of research underpinning its practices. All over the world, more and more schools are realizing its benefits for both pupils and staff. It increases well-being, fosters greater resilience, "and"…
Descriptors: Well Being, Positive Attitudes, Resilience (Psychology), Academic Achievement
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Li, Lu; Gow, Andrew Douglas Isherwood; Zhou, Jiaxian – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2020
Humans are inherently emotional creatures due to our social nature, and emotions are able to influence how well we learn and even affect academic outcomes. Emotions are rarely a chief concern in educational settings, and we will discuss the mechanisms underlying how emotions are processed in the brain and how they influence the key aspects of…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, Neurosciences, Psychological Patterns, Learning Processes
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Passarelli, Angela M. – Management Teaching Review, 2021
Team experiences afford opportunities for students to expand their self-knowledge based on peer feedback, yet feedback processes tend to be cumbersome and difficult to manage. Thus, educators often provide feedback only on the team's work output. The purpose of this article is to introduce a simple, structured exercise in which team members share…
Descriptors: College Students, Teamwork, Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation
Ventura, Sally – Educational Leadership, 2020
Ventura describes a "happiness unit" in her ELA class in which she asks students to examine what it means to be happy and how to increase one's mindfulness and confidence through self-reflection. The unit focuses on choice, engagement, and passion, as students research various positive psychology topics and create presentations, read…
Descriptors: High School Students, Language Arts, Psychological Patterns, Metacognition
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Hani Morgan – Voices of Reform, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered hostile acts against Asian college students. One of the ways to respond to these acts is to increase Asian American ethnic studies programs and courses. Although critics argue that ethnic studies programs cause divisiveness, research indicates that they are beneficial to students from all groups. University…
Descriptors: Asians, College Students, Psychological Patterns, Asian Americans
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Gkantona, Georgia – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2019
It is very often in counselling and psychotherapeutic procedures that clients need to cope with negative emotions such as sadness, guilt, fear or anger. The implementation of the Dialogical Stage Model (DSM) (Hermans, H. & Hermans-Konopka, A. [2010]. "Dialogical self theory: Positioning and counter-positioning in a globalizing…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Psychological Patterns, Coping, Dialogs (Language)
Huebner, Scott – Communique, 2019
Positive mental health is more than the absence of psychological symptoms. Considerable research has focused on positive indicators of strengths, including emotional strengths such as gratitude, life satisfaction, and hope. These three constructs, which have been referred to as the "triad of positive emotions"represent emotional…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, Well Being, Life Satisfaction, Psychological Patterns
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McGowan, Susannah; Felten, Peter – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
Reflecting on more than five years' work in a project to support faculty in redesigning large enrollment, high failure rate courses through an equity lens at multiple U.S. institutions, hope emerged as a crucial component of the academic development process. We consider the necessity of hope in the midst of a global pandemic, and also in long-term…
Descriptors: Educational Change, College Faculty, Academic Failure, Equal Education
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Julia Shields Chrestay; Kyra Atterbury, Contributor; Janet Chance, Contributor; Stecy Mbemba, Contributor; Helena Miller, Contributor; Joe Alberti, Contributor; Sara Caselle, Contributor; Suzanne Cilli, Contributor; Katherine Collier, Contributor; Erica Darken, Contributor; Emily Goedde, Contributor; Rochelle Krauss, Contributor; Bernadine Magee, Contributor; Noga Newberg, Contributor; An Nguyen, Contributor; Candice Smith, Contributor – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
Need in Deed's work with Philadelphia public school teachers and their students centers empathy, informed investigation, and civic action. Bolstered by these values and with the support of the My Voice framework and dedicated Need in Deed staff, educators are equipped to co-create authentic classroom communities with their students. In Need in…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Citizen Participation, Public School Teachers, Empathy
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Acosta, Alan – Journal of College and Character, 2017
In recent years, higher education's focus has changed from curricula-focused on student learning to curricula-intended to meet performance metrics and secure institutional resources. Shifting attention from students' learning to students' performance has left many students, faculty, and staff within higher education feeling isolated and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Improvement, Psychological Patterns, College Students
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Goh, Wilson; Tan, Leonard; Xing Sin, Hui – Music Educators Journal, 2021
Nearly fifty years ago, Timothy Gallwey published "The Inner Game of Tennis," which left an indelible mark on sports psychology; subsequently, Barry Green used similar principles to author "The Inner Game of Music." As far as can be determined, there lacks a concise guide that translates key insights from sports and music…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Activities, Psychology, Music
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