Browsing by Author "Juvonen, Erica"

Aims. Today progressively, the aiming is noticing the good and focusing individual strengths. Usually children’s well-being is reviewed lack of well-being and the factors that weakening well-being. '' What you focus on, will grow''- Buddha, citation recap well the core of positive psychology and -pedagogy. Positive pedagogy is still quite young pedagogical trend and influencer for it, is positive psychology. At the heart of positive pedagogy, action is with strengths support and guide pupils to recognize their own core strengths and using them to develop. My bachelor's thesis intention is to view positive psychology and -pedagogy researches and literatures in the light of pupils mental well-being. The research question is: What role does positive psychology and positive pedagogy play in the pupils mental well-being? Methods. The study method is literature review and it obey systematic review, it also has features of a descriptive literature review. My six study material was selected from positive psychology and- pedagogy researches. Outcome from the researches I have analyzed in light of my set research question Results and conclusions. In this study based on the research result positive psychology and - pedagogy methods appeared to be connected to the pupils mental well-being. Particularly strengths based interventions supported the construction of subjective well-being and seemed to have long-lasting effects on pupil live.