Designing a C-STEAM Course for Enhancing Children's Positive Psychological Characters and Learning Performance: A Two-Stage Experiment: This study examines the effects of positive psychology education in cultural learning

Abstract

Addressing the needs of advancing cultural education in China, this study presents a framework to integrate positive psychology education into C-STEAM education. We call the model P-CAR to emphasize a positive cognition-action-reflection procedure to cultivate subjective well-being during cultural learning. We conducted a pilot study and then a formal study to test the feasibility of the framework with technology-enhanced instruction and cultural creation activities. We found significant improvement for students’ subjective well-being, conceptual understanding, in-class performance, and program attitude. Hence, positive psychology seems to help promote more effective moral, virtue and cultural education. This paper paves the way for future “fusion” research and helps provide more data and discussion on positive psychology education, especially regarding its application in China. But more study would be needed to establish greater reliability, validity, and generalizability for this research direction.