TY  - JOUR
TI  - Lessons from a new science? : on teaching happiness in schools
KW  - Health and wellbeing
KW  -  Philosophy of education
SP  - 575
UR  - https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10001333/
EP  - 590
JF  - Journal of Philosophy of Education
AV  - public
ID  - discovery10001333
SN  - 0309-8249
N1  - This article offers a philosophical critique of the recent trend for "happiness lessons" in schools. I discuss the conceptual and ethical problems involved in the "science of happiness" research paradigm on which this trend is based, and suggest that the underlying values and presuppositions of much of the literature on "teaching happiness" are actually contributing to a distorted and profoundly anti-educational view of human flourishing. This paper offers a timely, philosophically rigorous intervention into an important policy initiative and was referred to in two articles on the topic in THES. The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com
VL  - 42
Y1  - 2008/08//
A1  - Suissa, Judith
IS  - 3-4
ER  -