Abstract
The pedagogical conception that each teacher assumes when referring to the teaching profession will guide his strategy for working with students. A teacher equally concerned with forming the competencies inscribed in school programs and helping the full flowering of the personality of the students with whom he works could adopt positive pedagogy as a frame of reference. The present work aims to review the principles of positive pedagogy, to nuance the roots of this paradigm in the light of current research and to bring to the fore its potential in terms of educational strategies that can be successfully adapted in the training of art teachers.