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Embodying Women's Stories for Community Awareness and Social Action
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Nieves, Yolanda – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2012
This article highlights four concepts related to embodied knowledge for community awareness: (1) possibilities; (2) risk; (3) collective engagement; and (4) performance. It examines the author's narrative study investigation manifested in a performance text as a case study on how women embodied repressed knowledge and released it through…
Descriptors: Females, Social Action, Learning Processes, Fundamental Concepts
The Role of Meaning and Emotion in Learning
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Wolfe, Pat – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
The brain, a pattern-finding organ, seeks to create meaning through establishing or refining existing neural networks; this is learning. Emotion affects what is learned and what is retained.
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Brain, Neurological Organization, Emotional Response
Key Aspects of How the Brain Learns
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Zull, James E. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
This chapter presents a brain-based model of adult learning and connects the model to practice.
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Brain, Adult Education, Models
Neuroscience and Adult Learning
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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