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Direct linkKathleen Taylor – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
The expanding field of affective neuroscience is redefining the role of emotions in cognition, reasoning, and judgment. This contradicts long-standing assumptions about cognition that consider emotions antithetical to learning. Emotions arose early in human brain development as essential to survival by directing the embodied brain toward…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Educational Environment, Adult Education
Beasley, Robert E. – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of symbolic expressions (e.g., "BTW," "LOL," "UR") in an SMS text messaging corpus consisting of over 10,000 text messages. More specifically, the purpose was to determine, not only how frequently these symbolic expressions are used, but how they are utilized in terms of the language functions…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Handheld Devices, Symbolic Language, Incidence
Dirkx, John M. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
Emotion-laden images that arise within adult learning provide a symbolic language for helping teachers and learners understand and facilitate transformation at both the individual and group levels.
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Learning, Symbolic Language, Emotional Response
