Psicología positiva: un estilo de vida llevado a la educación

Abstract

Positive Psychology (Garassini and Zavarce, 2010), a new approach of the discipline of psychology, was created to determine the characteristics, processes, and conditions that help optimal human functioning or flourishing. Three core concepts are studied, namely, emotion-affection, cognition-value, and social ties. This work analyzes systematically these concepts from education, and pursues to promote teaching and learning process from and towards happiness. This implies that teachers should learn to know themselves and their duties, and to have values, and goals. Thus, harmonic and happy spaces may be guaranteed.