Identification of curriculum objectives of brain-based education and positive education

Document Type : Review Article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan Branch, Isfahan, Iran.

2 Assistant professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Introduction: Positive psychology aims to identify factors that increase mental health and well-being. Positive education uses positive psychology to enhance learners' health, well-being, happiness, and flourishing. Identifying positive education goals and integrating them with brain-based learning and using them in educational and rehabilitation centers will increase learners' health, well-being, and growing.
Materials and Methods: This qualitative research is done by documentary method and systematic review and analyzed by content analysis technique. The research community includes published and digital resources associated with positive education, positive psychology, and brain-based learning. The findings were collected through purposive sampling using note-taking tools, with the keyword of Positive Psychology, Positive Education, and Brain-based learning by using books and valid scientific sites like Elsevier, PubMed, Google Scholar, and Science Direct from 2000 to 2021. The data were analyzed using inductive content analysis and its validity was calculated by the Content Validity Ratio. 
Results: The obtained goals included five main categories of purposefulness, morality, identity, increasing skills and emotions, and sixteen subcategories.
Conclusion: The results showed that the use of these goals, considering the effect of positive education in preventing and treating emotional problems, increasing mental health, reducing depression and suicide, achieving academic progress and learning, increasing coping with stress, self-efficacy and hope, improves well-being and reduces mental difficulties.

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Journal of Fundamentals of Mental Health
Volume 25, Issue 2
March and April 2023
Pages 67-78

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