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Pedagogy, Culture & Society
Student participation has become a relevant topic in the international debate on education. Howev... more Student participation has become a relevant topic in the international debate on education. However, the conceptions of the meaning of participation and its practical implications are very heterogeneous. This article reviews how educational policies have conceived student participation in Western countries. Having conceptualised student participation, the role of the liberal model in shaping school democracy and student participation is explored. It is suggested that this model is in crisis due to two main factors. On the one hand, the organisation of democratic processes in schools has well recognised limitations. On the other hand, the pressure of the neoliberal agenda on standardisation and the emphasis on individual success omit any interest in democratic aims. The evolution of education policies concerning student participation is illustrated with reference to a case analysis of Spanish state educational legislation. The future of student participation is reflected on
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Teoría de la Educación, 2021
El interés generado por la “educación positiva” ha crecido de forma exponencial en las últimas do... more El interés generado por la “educación positiva” ha crecido de forma exponencial en las últimas dos décadas. Presentado como un nuevo movimiento científico llamado a sustituir enfoques tradicionales o remediales en materia de intervención educativa, el argumento principal del movimiento es que la felicidad y la enseñanza de habilidades positivas son factores fundamentales para prevenir problemas de salud mental, mejorar el aprendizaje o promover el rendimiento escolar. En paralelo a este crecimiento, las críticas dirigidas a la educación positiva han sido también crecientes y numerosas, destacando no sólo aquellas procedentes de terceros, sino las procedentes desde el propio movimiento. Todas estas críticas ponen en duda la solidez y la utilidad de la educación positiva. El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer una mirada panorámica e integradora de estas críticas con el fin de facilitar una mayor comprensión de los principales problemas y limitaciones del movimiento. Estos problemas se organizan en torno a dos bloques temáticos principales: científicos e ideológicos. Dentro de los déficits científicos, el trabajo destaca la ausencia de un marco teórico general y la falta de evidencia acumulada, las notables limitaciones conceptuales y metodológicas en torno a constructos principales y la moderada eficacia, así como la baja generalizabilidad de sus intervenciones clave. Dentro del bloque ideológico, se abordan los principales sesgos y asunciones que subyacen el movimiento, tales como el marcado carácter individualista, descontextualizado y universalista del mismo. Para terminar, el artículo concluye con una breve reflexión en torno a la educación positiva y sus implicaciones en el ámbito de la educación.
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Social Psychology of Education
Positive education has gained increased interest and attention in the last decade. Born as an app... more Positive education has gained increased interest and attention in the last decade. Born as an applied movement within positive psychology, positive education aims to introduce a positive approach to education to aid schools in promoting happiness, improving learning and performance, and reducing mental health problems among children and adolescents. Whereas relatively new, positive education has made notable progress and bears enormous potential. However, the movement still presents vulnerabilities and limitations that need addressing. With a focus on critical and supporting literature, this integrative review explores and brings together some of the most pressing challenges that positive education faces today. Tackling these vulnerabilities would positively contribute to the ongoing advancement of the movement.
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Psychological Reports
Research on lay conceptions of happiness is essential to determine what is investigated in happin... more Research on lay conceptions of happiness is essential to determine what is investigated in happiness studies. Whereas psychological investigation has traditionally emphasized the importance of studying people’s everyday conceptions and their relation to cultural and social factors to advance psychological theory, this line of research is still largely overlooked in the field. The Spanish context has also received very limited attention in the area. To fill these gaps, this paper examined 547 lay definitions of happiness in a sample of Spanish participants. The aims of the study were threefold. First, to map and classify the definitions elicited through an open-ended question using a bottom-up approach. Second, to analyze the relationship of happiness definitions with different sociodemographic factors. Third, to explore the relationship between happiness conceptualizations and two different happiness measures. The final classification yielded 39 codes, 15 categories, and 3 overarchi...
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The interest in positive education has grown exponentially in the last two decades. Introduced as... more The interest in positive education has grown exponentially in the last two decades. Introduced as a new scientific movement aimed at moving away from traditional and remedial approaches to educational matters, the movement's main argument is that promoting happiness and positive skills amongst students is crucial for mental health prevention, improved learning, and higher performance. Parallel to this growing interest, the criticism addressed to the movement has also been mounting and numerous. Such criticism has not only been raised by the critical literature on the movement but also from within the movement itself, thus casting serious doubt over the quality and utility of the movement. In view of this, the objective of this paper is to provide an integrative overview of the main problems and limitations that touch on the field so far. The paper organizes these limitations into two main groups: scientific deficits and ideological biases. Regarding the former, the paper comment...
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Journal for the Study of Education and Development, Infancia y Aprendizaje, 2016
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Introduction. The aim of this study was to analyse the role of epistemological beliefs
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Teoría de la Educación: Revista Interuniversitaria, 2021
El interés generado por la "educación positiva" ha crecido de forma exponencial en las ... more El interés generado por la "educación positiva" ha crecido de forma exponencial en las últimas dos décadas. Presentado como un nuevo movimiento científico llamado a sustituir enfoques tradicionales o remediales en materia de intervención educativa, el argumento principal del movimiento es que la felicidad y la enseñanza de habilidades positivas son factores fundamentales para prevenir problemas de salud mental, mejorar el aprendizaje o promover el rendimiento escolar. En paralelo a este crecimiento, las críticas dirigidas a la educación positiva han sido también crecientes y numerosas, destacando no sólo aquellas procedentes de terceros, sino las procedentes desde el propio movimiento. Todas estas críticas ponen en duda la solidez y la utilidad de la educación positiva. El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer una mirada panorámica e integradora de estas críticas con el fin de facilitar una mayor comprensión de los principales problemas y limitaciones del movimiento. Estos ...
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Cognition and Instruction
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Education Sciences
Moral education and moral growth are very important topics, and have been so as much in the field... more Moral education and moral growth are very important topics, and have been so as much in the fields of moral psychology and moral education as in the policies of governments and international institutions over the past decades. These two topics are also central themes within the educational proposal of Philosophy for Children (P4C), as seen in theoretical reflection and in educational research. It is necessary to start from a more global approach to moral growth, focused on the development of capacities. Such abilities are to be understood as virtues or personality traits that enable us to achieve a full life, that is, to become good people. The transformation of classrooms into communities of philosophical inquiry, following the educational guidelines of P4C, can contribute to the achievement of this objective. Here we present the psychological and methodological underpinnings of an educational research project that we are applying to a small sample that includes two groups—experime...
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Tesis doctoral inedita leida en la Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Facultad de Psicologia, Depart... more Tesis doctoral inedita leida en la Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Facultad de Psicologia, Departamento de Psicologia Basica. Fecha de lectura: 20-11-2015
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Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, Sep 1, 2016
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Infancia y Aprendizaje, 2016
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