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Assessing school happiness: development and validation of a measurement scale f...

Introduction: Parents are one of the stakeholders in evaluating schools, and families’ perspectives about schools are increasingly acknowledged as essential to educational decision-making. However, little is known about how parents’ perspectives on school happiness can be assessed. This article proposes a model for evaluating school happiness as perceived by parents/guardians. Methods: Data were obtained throug...

What Makes a School a Happy School? Parents’ Perspectives

Well-being, equity, and inclusion are central aspects of happy schools. In this context, we aim to provide information to identify the characteristics of happy schools and Portuguese children’s level of happiness at school. In total, one thousand three hundred and ninety-nine parents of children from five to twenty years old participated in this study by answering a mostly open-ended questionnaire. They indicat...

Happy schools Portugal: elementos definidores da felicidade organizacional das ...

What makes a school a happy school?: Portuguese students’ perspectives

Introduction: UNESCO has sparked interest in the study of happy schools and, through its Happy Schools Project (HSP) framework, provides tools that enable the teaching and learning community to work towards making “happy schools” a reality. Since the understanding of happiness is culturally influenced (HSP studied Asian countries), we sought to identify parallels between the HSP framework and Portuguese schools...

What makes a school a happy school?: parents’ perspectives

Well-being, equity, and inclusion are central aspects of happy schools. In this context, we aim to provide information to identify the characteristics of happy schools and Portuguese children’s level of happiness at school. In total, one thousand three hundred and ninety-nine parents of children from five to twenty years old participated in this study by answering a mostly open-ended questionnaire. They indicat...

Events and their influence on the destination value

The study of the influence of events on the destinations where they take place has gained strength over the years. The current study investigates the effects on tourism with importance on promoting, positioning and shaping the image of the destination. This study aims to understand the influence of an event to the value of the destination while addressing topics like sustainability, image and value of the desti...

Economic crisis effects on SME dynamic capabilities

Based on dynamic capabilities theoretical framework, this research sought to understand the implications of the recent economic crisis on the capability of developing new products by Portuguese SMEs. Specifically, we assessed how this capability was affected by variables such as entrepreneurship, innovation capacity, the knowledge accumulation, and partnerships. The hypotheses were tested using two samples, one...

Shared Value Creation, Creative Tourism and Local Communities Development: The ...

The link between local value creation through creative tourism and local development isn´t completely understood in the literature. Specifically it is unclear how creative tourism is developed in the context of rural communities with few resources and without a clear view of the path to value creation. This research analyses cooperation as an antecedent to value creation, in the context of creative tourism, bas...

Value Creation in Volatile Economies

This chapter presents in a simplified way that communities in volatile economies can create value through the identification, valorization, and operationalization of knowledge, traditions, and other cultural dimensions, many of them in the domain of tacit knowledge, available in the minds of people and community shared value. Through a cycle of identification of local knowledge, it is possible to begin the whol...

La Felicidad Organizacional en Portugal: un análisis basado en la escala de la ...

El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en analizar la variable latente “felicidad organizacional” en el caso de los trabajadores de ambos géneros y con un mínimo de experiencia profesional de dos años en la misma organización. Para la aplicación del modelo de Rasch, se ha partido de una muestra aleatoria constituida por 439 profesionales y sacada de una base de datos con más de 1500 cuestionarios rellenados por p...