Positive education

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School plays a significant role to promote value of human relationship. This corresponds with holistic vision of the school which is no longer looking at being agent for academic excellence. In a modern view, expectation for the existence of school has been expanded. School needs to get close with the reality of daily life. In the perspective of positive education, schooling is not operated within the system where students are oriented towards achieving accomplishment, success, literacy, and discipline. This is how the society experience depression among young people. There is a need to pursue a balance between well-being and achievement (Seligman et al., 2009:293-294).

Positive education is built upon positivity that life has meaning and purpose. It is through meaningful and purposeful social interaction that  human being should achieve in this life.  It covers the whole school community to maintain positive climate. Everyone in the school should follow the common language of positivity. In the cultural level, this practice is ‘hidden curriculum’ where actually people have freedom ‘to stay outside the structure’ to contribute positivity.  

Those who are involved in school’s leadership team develop mindset of positivity through culture of working together and sharing the common vision. While in the classroom, teachers are encouraged to adopt more creative way ‘to go beyond teaching’. It is meant to be spending quality time with the students. Teachers play crucial part in creating meaningful experience. In my view, this is moment of celebration where collaborative engagement approach is made relevant.

Students need to be exposed with cultural diversity.  Being different is tolerable as far as it can always be open for dialog. Context of cultural diversity has become effective medium to test out collaborative engagement. Students are familiarized with healthy and meaningful relationship through active participation in collaborative engagement.

Looking at different side, the world has been globalized by the revolution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).  Trend of internet addiction and the favoritism of virtual world among young people have challenged the school. How positive education can have flexibility to deal with this?  In what way that positive education can be applied?  If technology is in the main domain of our daily life and modernization is part of it, positive education should be able to reach out ‘the reason’ and attitude. The key point is that positivity should also be about being more reasonable and critical. It is a combined character of open-mindedness and reflective. (c) ignherisw2017














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