Happiness Curriculum: Experience during the Online Scenario

Abstract

Happiness is a leading concern in everyone’s life, having different connotations for every individual. There can be no universal definition of happiness, as it is relative to everyone in their journey of life. In this era when people especially, children are witnessing several man-made and natural crises having a great impact on their impressionable minds, it is the need of the hour to underline the need of teaching happiness. Furthermore, the f ierce competition to be “career ready” has led to increased pressure on both the child and the parents. The relationship between happiness and education can be understood in the sense that one is the means to achieve the other and vice-versa. They both are continuous processes in themselves. There is a global need to develop curricula that are accommodative of the psycho-socio development of the children as well as to truly accomplish the purpose of education. The present paper is based on a study related to analyzing the effectiveness and ease of implementation of the innovative practice of the Happiness Curriculum during the pandemic in an online methodology.