Universal Journal of Educational Research Vol. 8(12B), pp. 8351 - 8361
DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2020.082640
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The Positive Psychology Virtues in the New Palestinian Textbooks

Fakher Khalili ^1,*, Saida Affouneh ², Ashraf Sayegh ², Ali Zuhdi Shaqour ², Muna Shaath ^1
1 Department of Psychology and Counselling, AN-Najah National University, Nablus, West Bank, Palestine
² Department of Curriculum and Teaching Methods, AN-Najah National University, Nablus, West Bank, Palestine

ABSTRACT

The purposes of this research are to evaluate virtues and strengths included in the new Palestinian textbooks and to assess the acquisitions of these virtues and strengths among the lower elementary students from their teachers' perspectives. The study benefited from the Positive Psychology framework to capture and assess those virtues and strengths either in the new Palestinian textbooks or among the students. To achieve the two previous objectives, two methodologies were utilized, a content analysis and an online survey. In the content analysis method; 82 study textbooks units were selected and analyzed. In the quantitative method, 351 teachers were selected. The results showed that the most frequently mentioned virtues were wisdom and justice, with the least mentioned being temperance and transcendence. The results also revealed that teachers highly assessed the acquisition of virtues and strengths among students. Teachers' demographic factors had impacts on assessing the acquisitions of the virtues and strengths among students. It is concluded that there is a clear imbalance in the distributions of both virtues and strengths. Therefore, the Palestinian school textbooks developers should consider including more of the positive psychology virtues and strengths such as virtues of temperance and transcendence.

KEYWORDS
Virtues, Strengths, Positive Psychology, Palestinian Textbooks

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Fakher Khalili , Saida Affouneh , Ashraf Sayegh , Ali Zuhdi Shaqour , Muna Shaath , "The Positive Psychology Virtues in the New Palestinian Textbooks," Universal Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 8, No. 12B, pp. 8351 - 8361, 2020. DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2020.082640.

(b). APA Format:
Fakher Khalili , Saida Affouneh , Ashraf Sayegh , Ali Zuhdi Shaqour , Muna Shaath (2020). The Positive Psychology Virtues in the New Palestinian Textbooks. Universal Journal of Educational Research, 8(12B), 8351 - 8361. DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2020.082640.