Encouraged by the writings in this issue I’m sharing a view of happiness; as an everyday aspiration and accomplishment rather than an enormous concept with voracious goals that is out of reach. ...Whether that be a postdoctoral researcher’s contentment upon completion of a draft of their new article, or the sense of achievement a young doctoral student gifts themselves after reading a book chapter about research methodology without having to perpetually refer to a dictionary to find the meaning of each new word (which sadistically appears to be in every other sentence) or, the deep pride a supervisor feels upon their student’s successful defence of the viva voce, or a professor’s sense of triumph as they enjoy a full cup of hot tea in peace. Or, indeed, the interstitial space in one’s day when, for example, you unexpectedly bump into a colleague and seize the moment to stop and say, ‘hello!’ and as you chat, a solution to a niggling problem appears as if ‘out of nowhere’. From all of these seemingly minor moments comes a warm glow; a gentle increase of serotonin that radiates through the body to help us build happiness.
With the advances of the study of Positive Psychology, it has become evident that it is necessary to develop or adapt teaching-learning methods to enable the objective set by education in Mexico, to ...promote integral development, which includes the social aspect, intellectual and emotional or affective of children in schools. The above is interpreted as the student having the possibility of being happy through tools and resources obtained within the school context, among others. Finding out what factors generate child happiness in general and in school in particular, provides opportunities for parents, educational authorities and teaching professionals to promote the integral development and training of happy children.
The article discusses the importance of game in achieving human happiness, and to what extent, happiness is the result of rational activity or spontaneous creativity. The main philosophical problem ...of happiness is the understanding – how happiness is predetermined by spiritual or material satisfaction of a man. From the point of view of knowledge, this problem is converted to an alternative between the objective determinism and the creative nature of happiness. Happiness, as an objective spiritual being, makes human life meaningful and morally oriented, but remains fundamentally unknowable and forces the person to conflict with its material nature. Happiness, as the satisfaction of material needs, makes human life more obvious, emotionally rich, but behind this consumption, the holistic image of human being is lost, and for it a man save himself in the world through the consumption. There is the need for the harmonization of the spiritual and material satisfaction. The game is the most important element, whereby it becomes possible. Firstly, it creates real material objects, which are not obeyed to utilitarian logic, but the ideals. So the usual things in the game become symbols and signs by which the man describes his spiritual world. Secondly, the game, thanks to free imagination, creates a new understanding of happiness, which can be realized just by means of rational activity. Thirdly, the gaming imagination makes a man happy in game. In this case, happiness becomes the subject of free creativity without regard to its nature and without any additional rational activity for its realization.
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