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Wen Xu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The growth of the Chinese language in African countries and African students' consequent flocking into Chinese higher education are both emergent phenomena. This partly explains the lack of empirical research on this body of student migrants and their Chinese language learning. This paper applies Watkins' theorisation on pedagogic affect to…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Students
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John Clayton; Paul Griffin; Graham Mowl – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
In this paper we reflect on our experiences teaching human geography across two modules that pedagogically centre student reflexivity through content that has potential to be dis-comforting. Drawing upon student experiences on two final year option modules, relating to social and spatial exclusion and "race", ethnicity and multiculture,…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Human Geography, Learning Experience
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Quinlan, Kathleen M. – College Teaching, 2016
The role of emotions in learning and teaching has largely been neglected in educational literature, particularly in higher education. Yet there are signs of increased interest in emotions in recent literature. This paper argues that emotions are a vital aspect of relationships. How we feel with and about others is central to the quality of those…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Emotional Response, Emotional Intelligence, Teacher Student Relationship
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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
de Byl, Penny; Taylor, Janet – Online Submission, 2007
This paper explores the Web 2.0 ethos with respect to the application of pedagogy within 3D online virtual environments. 3D worlds can create a synthetic experience capturing the essence of "being" in a particular world or context. The AliveX3D platform adopts the Web 2.0 ethos and applies it to online 3D virtual environment forming a Web…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Based Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Learning Experience
Greeley, Andrew M. – 1970
The suggestion that academic professions ought to be treated as games and that graduate school training should consist of preparation in gamesmanship is in this author's viewpoint, perfectly in keeping with the epistomological revolution. The literature of the 1960's which criticized the scientific world-view is reviewed. Three positions that…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, College Faculty
Ganser, Tom – 1994
This paper posits that metaphor, in addition to embellishing language, promotes a comprehensive understanding of complex concepts and phenomena and provides teachers with a powerful way to talk about their work. The main body of this document, which includes an extensive review of the literature, considers the use of metaphors for mentoring in the…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Brown, Charles T. – 1974
This analysis considers the deep purposes of communication, communication and relationship, relationship and nonverbal communication, projective and introjective perception, emotions and learning, the theory of dramaturgy applied to teaching, and some implications for the foreign language teacher. Communication is a special combination of…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Schuster, Donald H., Ed. – Journal of Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 1978
Contents of this issue are as follows: "Suggestopedia: The Use of Music and Suggestion in Learning and Hypermnesia:" by Elizabeth Risova Philipov; "A Two Year Evaluation of the Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching (SALT) Method in Central Iowa Public Schools" by D.H. Schuster and R.A. Prichard; "Improving Lecturer…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention, Behavioral Science Research, Bulgarian
Schuster, Donald H., Ed. – Journal of Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 1977
Contents of this issue are as follows: "A Study of the Use of the Lozanov Method of Accelerated Learning in a Naval Science Classroom" by E.E. Peterson; "Initial Approach to Relaxation and Subsequent Relaxation Treatment Effectiveness" by Lawrence Mohr; "Summary Statement on Counseling-Learning and Community Language…
Descriptors: Acoustical Environment, Affective Behavior, Agricultural Education, Anxiety