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Beard, Colin; Humberstone, Barbara; Clayton, Ben – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
This paper challenges the practical and conceptual understanding of the role of emotions in higher education from the twin perspectives of transition and transformation. Focusing on the neglected area of positive emotions, exploratory data reveal a rich, low-level milieu of undergraduate emotional awareness in students chiefly attributed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emotional Response, Affective Behavior, Positive Attitudes
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Cramp, Andy; Lamond, Catherine; Coleyshaw, Liz; Beck, Sue – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
This article focuses on emotional reactions to learning and assessment. It draws on a qualitative research project involving first-generation adult students on a foundation degree programme. Endorsing the notion of emotional reactions as situated in participants' lived power relations, we map out emotional patterns to Semester 1 and then explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Adult Students, Emotional Response