POSITIVE EDUCATION: INCORPORATING POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY INTO THE CLASSROOM FOR STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC SUCCESS

In recent years, there has been a paradigm shift in education towards a more holistic approach through incorporating positive psychology to support student’s academic success and well-being. This piece thoroughly analyses the notion of positive education and how it can be used in the classroom to improve students’ academic progress and general well-being. Positive education is an innovative teaching system that combines traditional academic instruction with positive psychological ideas. Within psychology, positive psychology is a subfield that specializes in improving positive emotions, character qualities, and overall psychological well-being. Positive education attempts to improve students’ cognitive ability and emotional intelligence, character development, and resilience by bringing positive psychology into education. Positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment, as rudiments of positive psychology, are central to positive education. The cultural and contextual relevance of positive psychology principles were examined to ensure the application and success of positive education across varied student demographics. Findings revealed that students’ morale was boosted, and interest in their studies was strengthened as teachers applied positive psychology principles to their teachings.