Growing (Thriving) Minds Towards 21 st Century Competencies

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1 Growing (Thriving) Minds Towards 21 st Century Competencies Hans Henrik Knoop, Aarhus University Extraordinary Professor, Optentia, NWU

2 8 Photo: Hans Henrik Knoop, 2018

3 Photo: Hans Henrik Knoop, 2012

4 Photo: Hans Henrik Knoop, 2015

5 Photo: Hans Henrik Knoop, 2018

6 Flourishing via Life-Qualities Predicting Self-efficacy and Resilience academic competence academic creativity learning Learning and creativity creating curiosity and urge to act physical health positive emotions engagement meaning social relations Food Exercise Sleep Hygiene Good social atmosphere Nice aesthetics Functional spaces Freedom, energizing goals, a few good rules, flexible degree of challenge, energizing evaluation, possibilities for immersion Usability Good reasons Fun collaboration Safe competition Basic needs for self-regulation and strengths-based growth (Knoop In: Vittersø (ed.) Handbook of Eudemonic Well-Being, 2016)

7 Flourishing via Life-Qualities Predicting Self-efficacy and Resilience physical health Food Exercise Sleep Hygiene positive emotions Good social atmosphere Nice aesthetics Functional spaces learning engagement Freedom, energizing goals, a few good rules, flexible degree of challenge, energizing evaluation, possibilities for immersion academic competence Learning and creativity curiosity and urge to act meaning Usability Good reasons academic creativity Every one of these life-qualities can be trained or neglected (Knoop In: Vittersø (ed.) Handbook of Eudemonic Well-Being, 2016) by the individual - and promoted or inhibited by the environment creating social relations Fun collaboration Safe competition Basic needs for self-regulation and strengths-based growth

8 Flourishing via Life-Qualities Predicting Self-efficacy and Resilience academic competence academic creativity learning Learning and creativity creating curiosity and urge to act Do you enjoy, and provide for, physical health these life-qualities? positive emotions engagement meaning social relations Food Exercise Sleep Hygiene Good social atmosphere Nice aesthetics Functional spaces Freedom, energizing goals, a few good rules, flexible degree of challenge, energizing evaluation, possibilities for immersion Usability Good reasons Fun collaboration Safe competition Basic needs for self-regulation and strengths-based growth (Knoop In: Vittersø (ed.) Handbook of Eudemonic Well-Being, 2016)

9 Flourishing via Life-Qualities Predicting Self-efficacy and Resilience academic competence academic creativity learning Learning and creativity creating curiosity and urge to act May you be able to physical health improve something? positive emotions engagement meaning social relations Food Exercise Sleep Hygiene Good social atmosphere Nice aesthetics Functional spaces Freedom, energizing goals, a few good rules, flexible degree of challenge, energizing evaluation, possibilities for immersion Usability Good reasons Fun collaboration Safe competition Basic needs for self-regulation and strengths-based growth (Knoop In: Vittersø (ed.) Handbook of Eudemonic Well-Being, 2016)

10 Curiosity as Nature s own recipe against boredom and anxiety Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant Bertrand Russell Hans Henrik Knoop, 2017

11 Josephine Knoop, 1999

12 Thank You! 2009 Hans Henrik Knoop

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