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• Half title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part 1 The foundations of happiness and well-being in education
• 1 The place of well-being and happiness in education
• The instrumental view of education
• Happiness in education
• Eudaimonism: another way of coming down the stairs
• The acquisition of virtue
• Eudaimonism as a unifying language for schools
• Which virtues?
• Other approaches to well-being, happiness and eudaimonia
• Care in education
• 2 Space for well-being
• Education as happiness: how the curriculum contributes to eudaimonia
• My World: Matthew Moss High School, Rochdale, UK
• The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme
• The relational in education
• The emotional skills of teaching
• Shame and pride
• Restorative justice
• Coaching
• Applying restorative justice and coaching with colleagues
• Part 2 Creating a curriculum for happiness and well-being
• 3 Preparing the ground
• Making well-being different: avoiding health terrorism
• Well-being and the curriculum
• Well-being lessons: awareness; intervention; reflection
• The experiential
• 4 Care of the body
• Meeting the body’s needs
• Eating well and virtue
• Exercise
• Sleep
• Caring for our emotions
• Primary emotion
• Learning emotion
• Secondary emotions
• The brain and learning
• Incontinence and executive function
• 5 Care of the mind
• Resilience
• The ABC
• Thinking traps
• Putting it in perspective: one of the PRP skills
• Resilient learners
• The mind diet
• The philosopher’s mind
• Getting started with teaching philosophy
• The moral mind
• Phronesis and the moral mind
• Moral psycology
• 6 Care of others
• Empathy
• Listening and being present
• Naïve realism and judgement
• Kindness
• Service
• Trust
• Gossip
• Conflict resolution
• Sex and relationships
• 7 Care of our passions
• The rat catcher
• Strengthspotting
• Character strengths
• Authenticity
• A note on challenge
• Flow
• Impediment to our passions number 1: extrinsic motivation
• Impediment to our passions number 2: the fixed mindset
• 8 Care of our place in the world
• Consumerism and emotion
• Ethical consumption
• Habituation and the hedonic treadmill
• Choice
• Delaying gratification
• Status anxiety
• Technology and remembering our humanity
• 9 Mindfulness, spirituality and meaning
• Mindfulness meditation
• The evidence base for mindfulness
• Mindfulness in schools
• Spirituality
• What is spirituality?
• Spirituality and the child
• Meaning making
• 10 The well-being of teachers
• Individual and institutional vices and virtues
• The virtues of teachers
• Autonomy, flow and meaning
• Perspective on pay and conditions
• Learning from each other: coaching and Appreciative Inquiry
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index