Why the world needs happy schools
UNESCO places happiness at the core of the transformation of education. It encourages education systems to recognise happiness as both a means to and a goal of quality learning.
Happy Schools
UNESCO has released a report ‘Why the world needs happy schools’ which outlines the UNESCO global Happy Schools framework, consisting of four pillars – people, process, place and principles – and 12 high-level criteria to guide the transformation of learning.
The report offers a holistic model for embedding happiness into education policies and cultivating it in schools through systemic changes.
It illustrates how the ‘Happy Schools’ initiative aims to create top-down and bottom-up transformation, encouraging governments to recognize happiness as a core objective of education. It supports the scaling of promising practices of joyful learning from the school to the policy level.
