IMPLEMENTATION OF HAPPINESS CURRICULUM IN THESCHOOL OF DELHI

Abstract

The happiness curriculum, designed to foster emotional wellbeing and resilience in students, has gained traction in various educational settings. The primary aim of is to cultivate a positive mindset, enhance social emotional skills, and promote overall mental health among learners.  By integrating activities that focus on mindfulness, empathy, and self- reflection, educators strive to create a nurturing environment that supports students’ emotional development along with academic learning.  Happiness Class is a program developed by the Government of NCT, Delhi for students from Nursery to Grade 8. The aim of the research paper is to understand the implementation of the happiness curriculum and identify the hindrances. The research study through observation tries to study different types of activities done in the class to make it a happy curriculum such as story- telling, mind-fullness activities, pointing expressions, playful activities. It tries to find out the areas where children show interest- asking in class, attentiveness in class, enjoyment, responding to questions, and a variety of interesting areas where children show interest. Various observations have been done to analyse the variety of chart paper, classroom wall presentation and happiness corner in the class. The study recommended certain suggestions for the effective implementation of happiness curriculum such as increasing the number of happiness teachers, ensuring access to good material and conduction of more activities in the group to provide equal opportunity to students.