To Focus On Students' Emotional Well-Being, India Tries 'Happiness Classes' [npr.org]

Alicia Doktor 7/30/184:00 AM

For the past three weeks, students across India's capital have been attending a radical new course: happiness.

The Delhi government introduced "happiness classes" in an effort to shift the country's academic focus from student achievement to emotional well-being. In a country that uses standardized testing to determine student success, offers a limited number of seats in top universities and sets high expectations, educators have been seeing mental health consequences.

Delhi's Education Minister Manish Sisodia is charged with implementing the unorthodox curriculum. "It will address the ever-growing concern - levels of happiness & wellbeing [are] decreasing, while stress, anxiety & depression are increasing," he tweeted the day the program launched at the start of the month.

[For more on this story by EMMA BOWMAN, go to https://www.npr.org/2018/07/28...es-happiness-classes]

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