EDUCATING HAPPY PEOPLE AND BUILDING HAPPY SCHOOLS: A MEASURE OF EDUCATIONAL QUALITY

Tuan Dinh  Cong

Tuan Dinh Cong Associate Professor, PhD. Hanoi University Of Culture, Hanoi, Vietnam https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2852-735X

Keywords: Happy, educating happy people, building happy schools, educational quality.

Abstract

Happiness is the ultimate goal of humanity, and building happy schools is considered one of the most important destinations of modern education. This is also the core ideal of humanistic education, aiming at the comprehensive development of human beings. Previous studies and practical survey results have shown that happy schools are one of the most important measures of educational quality. This article aims to clarify how to educate people to be happy and create a model of happy schools in the current context. The focus of the research includes: the concept of happiness in education, the relationship between positive attitudes and happiness, as well as the necessary conditions for building a humanistic and happy school environment. Based on a survey of 153 individuals, including 19 administrators (principals and vice-principals), 104 teachers, and 30 parents, the results indicate that a sense of happiness in school is consistently linked to a positive attitude and the companionship between teachers and students in a humane educational environment. On this basis, the article focuses on analyzing the factors that constitute happiness, orienting education towards happiness, and proposing solutions to build happy schools that improve the quality of life, learning, and comprehensive development for people.

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