We started together with dos. Lotta Uusitalo (find Lotta here) in 2014 to study positive education at the University of Helsinki, Department of Special Education. We were both special class teachers initially, and became interested in positive education after noticing that the traditional approach to teaching, mainly focusing on difficulties, was not leading to positive outcomes in our work. The first controlled study of positive pedagogy, and the teaching of character strengths in particular, was conducted in Espoo in 2015 (you can find the study here).
Research on positive pedagogy (eg. Vuorinen, Erikivi & Uusitalo, 2018. Jorsen. & Vuorinen, Hietajärvi & Uusitalo, 2019. Students’ Usage of Strengths and General Happiness Are Connected via School-Related Factors; under evaluation for publication) and my own experiences of strength-based education were particularly encouraging. So we started systematically teaching and researching strengths and quickly got hundreds of eager teachers to
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