Education for happiness: A picture of the values that promote happiness in the educational texts directed at Egyptian preparatory students, "an analytical study

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National Center for Educational Research and Development

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   This study aimed at identifying the values promoting happiness included in the educational texts submitted for middle school students, and identifying the most comprehensive of these texts on these values, as well as identifying the role of education in supporting the values promoting happiness among middle school students, and reviewing the most important international experiences in the field of education from For happiness, the study relied on the descriptive approach, and it used a content analysis method to achieve the study's goals. The most important results were as follows:
 
1-   There are eleven values of happiness-enhancing values that should be developed among students of the preparatory stage: flexibility, optimism, perseverance, positivity, achievement, ambition, self-esteem, non-violence, independence, sympathy and self-responsibility.
 
2. Educational texts of the Arabic language are more inclusive of the values ​​associated with promoting happiness followed by educational texts of social studies and then English.
 
3. the value of achievement, followed by the value of positive, then the value of perseverance attention to the educational texts of the Arabic language. While the value of achievement and then the value of positive and perseverance received the attention of educational texts for social studies, while the value of perseverance and optimism and flexibility received the attention of educational texts of the English language.
 
4. the value of achievement received attention texts educational stage preparatory, followed by the value of positive, then the value of perseverance. Some values ​​have not received the same attention as the value of ambition and self-esteem.
 

The value of self-responsibility has not received any degree of interest in these texts.

 
 
 

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