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Character strengths are the foundations of life-long development and thriving. These strengths help individuals to deal with everyday challenges and move forward in life with confidence and resilience. Character Strength Development: Perspectives from Positive Psychology aims to document research and evidence-based practices in positive psychology with specific focus on character strengths. The arguments and perspectives shared by the experts in their respective chapters will help create new research avenues. It is an excellent resource for researchers, academicians, practitioners and teachers to develop a comprehensive understanding of different approaches, models and best practices for character education across the globe. Practitioners, educators and policymakers in the field of character education will also find this book immensely helpful for incorporating character strength-based approaches in their practice.
Eccomi Pronto: Developing Curricula to Promote Character Strength Development in Primary School Students Through Storytelling
Eccomi Pronto: Developing Curricula to Promote Character Strength Development in Primary School Students Through Storytelling
Introduction
In this chapter, we describe a ‘Eccomi Pronto’ (EP) universal elementary school curriculum that we created to promote the development of self-direction in Italian schoolchildren. We also describe the lesson we learned from the process of developing EP and we make suggestions for educators who would like to develop similar story-based curricula to promote character strength development.
Educational research has consistently shown that narrowing down the scope of schooling gives rise to problems in children's development (see Greenberg et al., 2003; National Research Council, 2012). ...
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