Education as Flourishing

Author:

Ryan Richard M.1,Reeve Johnmarshall2,Kaplan Haya3,Matos Lennia4,Cheon Sung Hyeon5

Affiliation:

1. Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University

2. Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University

3. Center for Motivation and Self-Determination, Kaye Academic College of Education

4. Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

5. Physical Education, Korea University

Abstract

Abstract In the perspective of self-determination theory the central aim of education should be that of enhancing students’ flourishing. Flourishing involves not only the development of cognitive capacities but also capacities for agency, prosocial relationships, and psychological wellness. Strong evidence within self-determination theory, reviewed herein, shows how teaching styles that support students’ basic needs for autonomy, relatedness, and competence foster these aspects of flourishing, enhancing the quality of students’ engagement, learning, and social relationships. Also highlighted are how students’ motivation and agency reciprocally influence teachers’ tendency to be need supportive, such that interventions on both sides of the teacher-student relationship can enhance learning climates. Nonetheless, this body of evidence concerns optimizing need supports within existing school environments, which too often remain mired in policies, practices, and omnipresent evaluations that are not designed for student flourishing, and which instead often harm both students’ and teachers’ well-being and motivation. The chapter’s conclusion includes a call to broaden the criteria by which schools are evaluated to include process as well as outcome targets. Creating the best schools we can imagine entails the assessment and cultivation of what really matters (i.e., process targets) to student flourishing in both their present and future lives.

Publisher

Oxford University Press

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