Toolkit to Happiness in the 21st Century

Current education systems based on curricular and instructional standardization, ubiquitous testing, and coercive accountability seem to make today's teachers and students equally „unhappy”. The current education meta-narrative appears to be in a crisis, finding itself in a pre-paradigmatic shift, where alternative educational concepts compete for future theoretical articulations. One particular concept, though invites contemporary educationalists to re-think future strategic thinking, long-term planning and advocacy endeavours towards a new non-totalising system – that of individual happiness and student well-being.