A Happy and Joyful School Environment for Children

Living in today’s world of new, diverse, and complicated phenomena inevitably demands certain types of knowledge, abilities, and facilities. Here, our teenagers need a delightful environment for living a happy life. Now that most houses in cities have turned into small apartments lacking any kind of play areas, the least we can do in order to provide for their physical and mental health is to create a happy and joyful atmosphere at schools. By creating appropriate spaces at schools we can contribute significantly to our children’s living a happy life. In order to actualize the idea of having a happy school environment, the views of the authorities in the training and educational system must undergo serious changes. In fact, creating a happy school environment demands our attention to both external and spiritual dimensions of this idea. The present paper initially deals with the meaning of being happy according to Islam and psychologists. Then it examines the problem from the point of view of the training and education system. Finally, the writer presents some appropriate strategies and suggestions for creating a happy and joyful school environment.