RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Kallová, Nikola
T1 Happier second graders: How to achieve this on the basis of school documents
JF e-Pedagogium
YR 2023
VO 23
IS 1
SP 34
OP 45
DO 10.5507/epd.2023.002
UL https://e-pedagogium.upol.cz/en/artkey/epd-202301-0003.php
AB According to research studies and international student assessments, happy students have better academic performance and overall educational results. The happiness of school members, especially pupils, should be a priority for founders, school management and school policy actors, not only for pragmatic and academic reasons. From the point of view of moral theories, the positive mental experience of pupils is an important autotelic value. Despite the initiatives of several sectors in the practical aspect of increasing the happiness of students, there is a lack of theoretical anchoring of conditioning processes in scientific studies that would navigate schools in the creation of school educational programs and teaching. Through the interpretive content analysis (Drisko & Maschi, 2015) of national curricular and methodical documents, categories of interventions that can be implemented in the sense of increasing the level of happiness of pupils were created. The categories are supplemented with recommendations from other research literature and are relevant not only for Slovakia but also for the environment of Czech schools. The findings operate with categories under which are grouped the boundaries for implementing happiness in schools, such as planning and goal setting, evaluation and control system, school teaching staff, teaching methods and curriculum.