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Lessons from a New Science? On Teaching Happiness in Schools

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Recent media reports about new programmes for ‘happiness lessons’ in schools signal a welcome concern with children’s well-being. However, as I shall argue, the presuppositions of the discourse in which many of these proposals are framed, and their orientation towards particular strands of positive psychology, involve ideas about human life that are, in an important sense, anti-educational.

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