¿Educación para la Felicidad? Educación entorno a la Economía de la Felicidad en Bolivia y México

Abstract

The creation of public policies in education should be generated from research focused on education, economy and happiness, as an end in itself. The objective of the study is to investigate the relevant aspects on which an educational policy should be focused on achieving happiness; The research uses a quantitative, non-experimental descriptive, direct method of well-being related to the concept of happiness, calculates happiness indicators and captures the cognitive and emotional components of individual subjective well-being, around young people and adolescents in Bolivia and Mexico. Methodology consisted of a case study developed under a quantitative analytical approach. With this, statistical and econometric analysis techniques are used, as well as the use of specialized software (SPSS and STATA programs). And the instrument will be that applied by Ahn and Mochon (2011). The research discusses the evidence accumulated as a result of the performance of two primary social dimensions such as education and the economy; measures and proposes education as a way to achieve subjective well-being understood as happiness. The level of happiness according to type of locus is higher for young people and adolescents with a high locus of internal control, it is higher for Bolivia; the level of happiness is lower for people with a high external locus of control with a higher level for Mexico. The comparable empirical evidence collected around youth and adolescents in Bolivia and Mexico, presents the importance of education to achieve subjective well-being - happiness-, proposes to base educational learning with apparently different contexts with surprisingly similar elements on topics such as family, personal success, personal relationships and personality formation.