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Lessons in Happiness
For secondary schools
Jacqueline Boerefijn July 2th 2014
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What is the nickname of the Dutch?
BINGO!
Biology teaches about
• Smoking
• Drinking
• Drugs
• Teenage pregnancy
• STD’s / AIDS
• Anorexia
• Obesity
• Global warming & Rising sea levels
Tutors teach about
• Bullying
• Performance anxiety
• Criminality
• Risk of domestic violence in the future
Lessons in happinessFor freewww.lesseningeluk.nl
Youth happiness ranking
1. Netherlands
2. Sweden
3. Norway
4. Iceland
5. Finland
6. Denmark
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)
Research
• n 631 students from three schools
• Six lessons of 50 minutes15 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.
GPA
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6,90
6,80
6,70
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Estimated Marginal Means of MEASURE_1
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.
(I wish I was rich and not that happy)
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
In Europe almost 20 years later
learning to beor betterlearning to be WELL
needs us to spread and implement it
• Happiness protects teenagers against all kind of risks. It protects against depression, riskybehaviour (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)
Thank you!