e-Pedagogium 2023, 23(1):34-45 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2023.002

Happier second graders: How to achieve this on the basis of school documents

Nikola Kallováa
a Ústav výskumu sociálnej komunikácie, SAV, v. v. i., Dúbravská cesta 5973, 841 04 Karlova Ves, Bratislava

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.

Keywords: well-being, second-graders, the National Education Programme, school educational program, interpretive content analysis.

Received: August 1, 2022; Revised: December 8, 2022; Accepted: February 2, 2023; Prepublished online: May 29, 2023; Published: August 22, 2023  Show citation

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Kallová, N. (2023). Happier second graders: How to achieve this on the basis of school documents. e-Pedagogium, 23(1), 34-45. doi: 10.5507/epd.2023.002
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