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The meaning and role of emotions in adult learning
Author(s) -
Dirkx John M.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
new directions for adult and continuing education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0717
pISSN - 1052-2891
DOI - 10.1002/ace.311
Subject(s) - adult education , meaning (existential) , adult learning , psychology , adult development , obstacle , epistemology , social psychology , sociology , pedagogy , political science , psychotherapist , philosophy , law
This chapter describes different ways of understanding emotions and their role in adult learning. The author suggests that our understanding of emotions is shifting from one where they are viewed as an obstacle to reason and knowing to more holistic and integral ways of knowing one's self and the world.