15. Lessons in Happiness
1 What is happiness?
2 What makes you happy?
3 Is happiness important? (optimism)
4 Can you learn to be happy? (grattitude)
5 Be kind to each other.
6 Use your strengths.
Dessert to take home: realize your plans (hope)
16. Research
• n 631 students from three schools
• Six lessons of 50 minutes
15 classes randomly assigned (n 381)
• controlgroup 10 classes (n 250): usual mentor
classes.
• pre-and post-study questionnaires via internet
asking about happiness and health.
• Grade point averages at the end of the school
year pre and post the intervention.
19. Think about your life in 5 years.
Imagine that everything has gone as well as
it possibly could. You have worked hard and
succeeded at accomplishing all of your life
goals. Think of this as the realization of all of
your life dreams.
Now, write about what you imagined.
22. The International Commission on
Education for the 21st Century
four pillars as the foundations of education:
* learning to know,
* learning to do,
* learning to be,
* learning to live together.
(Jacques Delors 1996), for UNESCO
23. In Europe almost 20 years later
learning to be
or better
learning to be WELL
needs us to spread and implement it
24. • Happiness protects teenagers against all kind
of risks. It protects against depression, risky
behaviour (smoking, drinking, using drugs,
gambling, sexual misbehaviour, criminality)
and dropping out of school.
• Happiness levels drop significantly in early
teenage years, especially for girls. ( WHO
Europe 2008, UNICEF, 2007)
