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The Happy Schools Project

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Executive Summary

With 1-in-5 children suffering from psychosocial problem, and mental illness projected as the second biggest health problem by 2020, Malaysia’s ability to meet the demands of a IR4.0-ready workforce – i.e. healthy, productive, with good social skills and ethics – is in jeopardy (1,2,3).

In 2019, The Minister of Education, The Prime Minister and The Agong’s daughter have highlighted the critical need to infuse social-emotional intelligence (SEI) and values in revamping our school system (4,5). 
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Happy Schools Project (HSP) is a 4-year Intervention Research pilot that will test a structured SEI curriculum that promote protective factors (positive competencies and people) and decrease psychosocial problems for students (6,7,8) and teachers (9,10) based on a prevention science framework (11).

This Positive Youth Development (PYD) approach (12, 13, 14) is expected to promote social, emotional and behavioral intelligence within the Education 4.0 framework (15) in the 4-Rs and CHAMPS – the cornerstones for value enhancement in shaping the future generation.
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The original HSP proposal uses a whole-school approach (16) involving children, teachers and community stakeholders (incl. parents), and promotes school-community-university partnerships (17).
Deliverables and Output include:
1. An SEI Curriculum (with 10 modules) integrated with the new school curriculum
2. An Online Learning and Resource Platform for Students & Teachers
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A multidisciplinary team will be brought together, including expertise in psychology, human development, counseling, education, youth studies, social studies, and communication.
Project Name
Social-Emotional Intelligence for Primary Schools in Malaysia (also known as The Happy Schools Project)
 
Project Leader
Dr Brendan J Gomez, Asian Research Center for Child & Adolescent Development (ARCCADE)
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To contact the developers, email: A  R  C  C  A  D  E  (at) G  M  A  I  L  .  C  O  M
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  • Japan Tsunami 2011
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