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E-book: Teaching Happiness and Well-Being in Schools, Second edition: Learning to Ride Elephants

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  • Format: 240 pages
  • Pub. Date: 22-Oct-2015
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Education
  • ISBN-13: 9781472917331
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  • Format: 240 pages
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  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Education
  • ISBN-13: 9781472917331

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This updated edition is a theoretical and practical guide to implementing a well-being programme in your school. The book covers three areas: well-being as a philosophy of education, the teaching approach to well-being and the content that might form a well-being programme in a school. It is also a manifesto for a meaningful aim to education.

There has recently been an explosion of interest in positive psychology and the teaching of well-being and 'happiness' in the PSHE world in schools and many teachers are looking for clear information on how to implement these potentially life-changing ideas in the classroom. This book provides an introduction to the theory of positive psychology and a practical guide on how to implement the theory in (primarily secondary) schools. It is written by Ian Morris who worked under Anthony Seldon at Wellington College which is well-known for its well-being and happiness curriculum.

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A theoretical and practical guide to the implementation of a well-being programme in secondary schools.
Acknowledgements x
Foreword xi
Kristjan Kristjansson
Introduction xii
Part 1 The foundations of happiness and well-being in education
1(38)
1 The place of well-being and happiness in education
3(18)
The instrumental view of education
4(3)
Happiness in education
7(1)
Eudaimonism: another way of coming down the stairs
8(2)
The acquisition of virtue
10(1)
Eudaimonism as a unifying language for schools
11(2)
Which virtues?
13(1)
Other approaches to well-being, happiness and eudaimonia
14(2)
Care in education
16(5)
2 Space for well-being
21(18)
Education as happiness: how the curriculum contributes to eudaimonia
22(1)
My World: Matthew Moss High School, Rochdale, UK
23(1)
The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme
23(2)
The relational in education
25(1)
The emotional skills of teaching
26(3)
Shame and pride
29(2)
Restorative justice
31(3)
Coaching
34(2)
Applying restorative justice and coaching with colleagues
36(3)
Part 2 Creating a curriculum for happiness and well-being
39(140)
3 Preparing the ground
41(12)
Making well-being different: avoiding health terrorism
41(3)
Well-being and the curriculum
44(1)
Well-being lessons: awareness; intervention; reflection
45(3)
The experiential
48(5)
4 Care of the body
53(20)
Meeting the body's needs
55(1)
Eating well and virtue
55(2)
Exercise
57(4)
Sleep
61(2)
Caring for our emotions
63(1)
Primary emotion
64(1)
Learning emotion
64(1)
Secondary emotions
65(3)
The brain and learning
68(2)
Incontinence and executive function
70(3)
5 Care of the mind
73(24)
Resilience
74(2)
The ABC
76(1)
Thinking traps
77(2)
Putting it in perspective: one of the PRP skills
79(1)
Resilient learners
80(2)
The mind diet
82(2)
The philosopher's mind
84(1)
Getting started with teaching philosophy
85(4)
The moral mind
89(1)
Phronesis and the moral mind
90(2)
Moral psychology
92(5)
6 Care of others
97(22)
Empathy
99(4)
Listening and being present
103(1)
Naive realism and judgement
104(2)
Kindness
106(2)
Service
108(1)
Trust
108(2)
Gossip
110(1)
Conflict resolution
111(3)
Sex and relationships
114(5)
7 Care of our passions
119(18)
The rat catcher
119(1)
Strengthspotting
120(2)
Character strengths
122(1)
Authenticity
123(2)
A note on challenge
125(1)
Flow
126(4)
Impediment to our passions number 1 Extrinsic motivation
130(2)
Impediment to our passions number 2 The Fixed Mindset
132(5)
8 Care of our place in the world
137(16)
Consumerism and emotion
139(1)
Ethical consumption
139(1)
Habituation and the hedonic treadmill
140(1)
Choice
141(1)
Delaying gratification
142(1)
Status anxiety
143(4)
Virtue and technology
147(2)
Technology and remembering our humanity
149(4)
9 Mindfulness, spirituality and meaning
153(16)
Mindfulness meditation
153(2)
The evidence base for mindfulness
155(3)
Mindfulness in schools
158(3)
Spirituality
161(1)
What is spirituality?
162(2)
Spirituality and the child
164(2)
Meaning making
166(3)
10 The well-being of teachers
169(10)
Individual and institutional vices and virtues
170(1)
The virtues of teachers
171(1)
Autonomy, flow and meaning
172(1)
Perspective on pay and conditions
173(2)
Learning from each other: coaching and appreciative inquiry
175(4)
Notes 179(17)
Bibliography 196(5)
Index 201
Ian Morris has taught in secondary education since 2000. He has run the Well-being programme at Wellington College since 2006, alongside teaching Philosophy and Religion. He is involved in a wide range of other training such as the teaching of resilience (as a trainer on the UK Resilience Programme), restorative justice, coaching and low and high ropes courses. He is currently helping the Jubilee Centre at the University of Birmingham to develop a national programme of character education.