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01 May 2008

Positive learning

Posted by: Emily Wilkinson

Positive learning

This great article was in the Society section of yesterday's Guardian.

Madeleine Bunting writes about programmes that promote wellbeing in schools, arguing that we have developed a "culture of pessimism" which in turn affects educational achievement and therefore economic competitiveness.

Wellbeing "puts people at the centre of things. The origins of economics was to make people happy, and economists like Layard have taken it back to those moral roots of economics. There is a strong progressive underpinning to this wellbeing agenda. It's not just about accommodating capitalism."

- Geoff Mulgan, director of the Young Foundation

It really does feel like there's currently a huge shift towards wellbeing and positivity being intergrated into everyday life. It interests me how individual emotions are becoming 'recognised' and taken seriously in parallel with climate change and environmental concerns. Sustainability really is an umbrella term for all these shifts that are happening and coming together right now.

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