EEF to Adopt Positive Education Approach

BANGKOK, Dec 12 (TNA) – The Equitable Education Fund (EEF) plans to adopt a positive education approach from Finland, renowned for the most efficient education system in the world. Director of the EEF's Office of Partnership, Innovation and Scholarships, Thantida Wongprasong said positive education was an approach to education that draws on positive psychology's emphasis of individual strengths and personal motivation to promote learning. It is new in Thailand. After learning from Finland, we have to find the way how to implement it in classrooms, she said. An approach to positive education is to develop Positive CV or PCV, a curriculum vitae of a broad range of skills that helps a child to learn to recognize their various abilities, providing positive pedagogy and curriculum based on academic research. Soft skills or character traits and interpersonal skills that characterize a person's relationships with other people should be trained for young students along with hard skills or occupational skills, she added. In this regard, a seminar was held in Bangkok by the EEF to listen to ideas, experiences and guidelines from Finnish teacher trainer, Kaisa Vuorinen who is also CEO & Founder at Positive Learning Ltd. She said that she and a researcher from University of Helsinki did a research on positive education and produced handbooks for teachers, widely distributed in Finland and many countries. This cooperation with the EEF is a mission to create equitable education in Thailand and teachers in all levels should participate to create lessons that suits each forms of education in Thailand. Application is now open for schools here to participate in the pilot project to be fully launched next year. (TNA)