To determine if the practice of moral ethical codes Yama and Niyama effect crafting creativity and authentic happiness in children between 8 to 12 years of age

Abstract

This dissertation is the outcome of interventions that were administered in two schools to children between 7 and 12 years of age. The interventions were in the domains of moral and ethical interventions and conduct, pro-social priming, and character building. newlineThe research was conducted with an explicit intent to provide moral and ethical interventions to the children to help build character and social skills. These moral and ethical interventions were the yama and niyama, and the creative kindness principles from Yoga and Buddhist Psychological frameworks and to observe and analysis the phenomenological implications of such interventions on the children. newlineThis research was also undertaken due to the personal motivation of the researcher to reinforce a neglected yet important part of children s education. newlineThe transmission of the pedagogically crafted interventions for this home-grown program being researched was with the help of using storytelling, focus, mindfulness, relaxation exercises, group activities, and discussions. newlineSets of data were collected and tabulated from a sample size of 358 children (out of 360 children) in eight classes from five questionnaires administered at intervals, during the course of the interventions, administered to them. newlineeThis is a mixed method research study with a convergent design incorporating both an experiment and social science framework and using Participative Action Research (PAR) with a goal to prompt social change by instilling clarity of views on happiness and creative kindness in these children. The research design opted out of having a control group and instead used a quasi-experimental framework instead of a control group, and it collected retrospective data or postest data with the response shift mechanism (Sage Edge 2019, Sage Research 2020). newline