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- Demonstrates that schools can indeed provide autotelic experiences
- Is evidence that flow and positive psychology can influence how young people are being taught
- Inspires readers to ponder what it means to be alive and really live
- Clearly shows, in content and tone, the enjoyment that the pursuit of empirical research provides
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Contributions
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Emperical Studies
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About this book
The third volume of the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers his work on the application of flow in areas that go beyond the field of leisure where the concept was first applied. Based on his personal experience with schooling and learning, as well as that of many others and contrary to what Cicero claimed, Csikszentmihalyi arrived at the conclusion that instead of taking pride in making the roots of knowledge as bitter as possible, we should try to make them sweeter. Just as flow became a popular and useful concept in voluntary activities, it could likewise be applied in education with the end result of young people being more likely to continue learning not just because they have to but because they want to.
This volume brings together a number of articles in which Csikszentmihalyi develops ideas about how to make education and more generally the process of learning to live a good life, more enjoyable. Since theory is the mother of good practice, the first eleven chapters are devoted to theoretical reflections. Some are general and explore what it means to be a human being, what it means to be a person, when we look at life from the perspective of flow. Others are more narrowly focused on such topics as consumption, education, teaching and learning. They help laypeople reflect how they can arrange their lives in such a way as to leave a small ecological footprint while getting the most enjoyment. The second section of the volume contains a dozen empirical articles on similar topics. They deal with the development of identity and self-worth; with the formation of goals and motivation; with loneliness and family life.
Keywords
- Adolescent Happiness
- Concept of Life Themes
- Consumer Behavior
- Development of Wisdom
- Ecology of Adolescent Activities
- Educational Leadership
- Enjoying and Surviving School Systems
- Enjoying the Intrinsic Rewards of Hard Work
- Experience Sampling Method
- Family Interaction
- Flow and Education
- Flow and Effective Teaching
- Flow and Happiness
- Flow and Student Engagement
- Identity in Young Adulthood
- Joy of Reading
- Leisure in Adolescence
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Mood variability of Adolescents
- Person Development
- Problems of Comparative Ludology
- Psychology of Wisdom
- Quality of Experience
- Self-Worth across Adolescence
- Social Context of Middle Schools
Authors and Affiliations
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Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, USA
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Applications of Flow in Human Development and Education
Book Subtitle: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Authors: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9094-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9093-2Published: 21 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7859-6Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9094-9Published: 08 August 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 494
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations
Topics: Positive Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Educational Psychology