Positive Education in Hong Kong: Present and Future

Importance and Benefits of promoting Positive Education in Hong Kong

Implementing Positive Education is important to promote wellbeing for teachers and students in the highly competitive atmosphere of Hong Kong. Positive education assists students to strengthen their relationships, understand and build positive emotions, enhance personal resilience, promote engagement, and encourage a healthy lifestyle. Insights obtained from positive education will continue to assist students in pursuit of a happy and meaningful life beyond the school gates, contributing to a positive community.

Experiences of adapting Positive Education in Hong Kong

A whole-school approach to positive education is needed for preparing students to flourish, showing teachers how to build on student’s strengths, enhancing teacher’s own wellbeing and leadership skills, developing a positive culture throughout the school, and engaging parents, stakeholders and the community to support and sustain wellbeing.

• Staff training & staff support (“Learn it” and “Live it”)

• Explicit teaching of positive education (“Teach it”)

• Implicit teaching of positive education (“Embed it”)

• Promoting the six related pillars of positive education (positive emotion, positive engagement, positive accomplishment, positive purpose, positive relationships, and positive health).