Experience and the meaning of a good life in an informal curriculum (Case: Instagram)

In the new perspectives of the curriculum, informal and lived experiences of students are as valuable as formal and planned experiences. The main purpose of this research is to examine the experience and meaning of good life in informal curriculum. To this purpose, the experience and meaning of a good life for students through Instagram mediation were examined. To achieve this goal, grounded theory method was considered appropriate and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 7 female high school students in Izeh city. Findings in nine categories: celebrity, extremes and imitation, pleasant mental feeling, flow experience, academic failure, family relationships, physical and mental harm, finding a career path and gaining skills and four conceptual classes of orientations, behaviors, experiences And the performances.it represents a experience and meaning hedonistic and   preference-satisfaction of good life for students.