The Application of Positive Psychology in Primary and Secondary Classroom Teaching

Meie Zhu

doi:10.54097/vmc9j272

Authors

Meie Zhu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/vmc9j272

Keywords:

Positive Psychology, Positive Education, mental strength, positive personality.

Abstract

Positive psychology is the applied science that reveals human strengths and promotes their skills. Its main function is to use scientific methods to discover the power of positive mental strengths, and use these mental strengths to help ordinary people maximize their own potential to achieve happiness. Applying the positive psychology to education, positive education came into being. The fundamental goal of positive education is to promote flourishing or positive mental health within the school community.By advocating the positive education method adopted by teacher Marva Collins, this paper tries to find the potential positive strength of students in daily work, enhance their positive experience, and finally cultivate their positive personality.

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