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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
Lawrence, Randee Lipson – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2012
Intuitive knowing is one of the most complex and misunderstood ways of knowing. It is difficult to put into words and verbalize. Intuition is spontaneous, heart-centered, free, adventurous, imaginative, playful, nonsequential, and nonlinear. People access intuitive knowledge through dreams, symbols, artwork, dance, yoga, meditation, contemplation,…
Descriptors: Intuition, Adult Learning, Knowledge Level, Adult Education
Taylor, Edward W. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2008
Little is known about the nature of teaching and the role of emotions in nonformal education. This is not surprising, given that nonformal education has many shades of meaning, limited literature exists about the realities of teaching in nonformal settings, and little has been written about the nature of emotions and teaching in formal settings,…
Descriptors: Nonschool Educational Programs, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response, Learning Activities
Dirkx, John M. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2008
This article describes different ways of understanding emotions and their role in adult learning. The author suggests that people's 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. In this article, he provides a…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Psychological Patterns, Role Perception, Emotional Development
Kasworm, Carol E. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2008
Learning is an act of hope. Although adults enter learning experiences from many frames of emotion and cognitive beliefs, each views this experience as the purposeful choice for a new and different future, a future of hope and possibilities. For adult learners, the pursuit of higher education is a choice and a life-changing engagement. Given the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Affective Behavior
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
Cozolino, Louis; Sprokay, Susan – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
This chapter is an introduction to how the learning process changes the brain, with special attention to the facilitative role of the adult educator/mentor.
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Educators, Brain, Neurological Organization
