Harnessing Happiness in Education: Fostering Youth Leadership

Abstract

Happiness in learning and fostering youth leadership go hand in hand, as both are essential components of personal and societal growth. By considering happiness in learning that fosters the leadership of youth, some happy teaching factors have identified. Keeping this scenario in the mind of the objective of the present study was conducted to how much the happy teaching factors contribute in students’ happy learning in Kendriya Vidyala, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyala, Government, Aided and Unaided secondary schools of Shivamogga district of Karnataka State. The sample of the study consisted of 400 students from 9th standard and research technique such as percentage analysis was adopted to find out the results of the study. The results of the present study showed that among 400 students about 57.5% (230) (High) about 40.4% (162) (Average), and about 2.1% (8) (Low), among 40 students of Kendriya Vidyalaya School about 52.5% (21) (High), about 40% (16) (Average) and about 7.5% (3) (Low), among 40 students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya School about 57.5% (23) (High), about 37.5% (15) (Average) and about 5.0% (2) (Low), among 120 students of Government Secondary Schools about 59.2% (71) (High), about 39.1% (47) (Average) and about 1.7% (2) (Low), among 80 students of Aided Secondary Schools about 60% (40) (High), about 37.5% (30) (Average) and about 2.6% (2) (Low), among 120 students of Unaided Secondary Schools about 55.9% (67) (High), about 37.5% (45) (Average) and about 6.6% (8) have opined that happy teaching factors contribute their happy learning. This paper also makes a few suggestions to the government, policymakers, schools, and teachers that happy teaching factors contribute to fostering youth leadership for the holistic development of young individuals.