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Thinkstock When parents and teachers consider how children learn, it’s usually the intellectual aspects of the activity they have in mind.
Sidney D’Mello would like to change that. The University of Notre Dame psychologist has been studying the role of feelings in learning for close to a decade, and he has concluded that complex learning is almost inevitably “an emotionally charged experience,” as he wrote in a paper published in the journal Learning and Instruction earlier this year.
During the learning experiments described in his paper, he notes, the participating students reported being in a neutral state only about a quarter of the time.
===> The rest of the time, they were experiencing lots of feelings: surprise, delight, engagement, confusion, boredom, frustration. <===
Read more:
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/07/what-do-emotions-have-to-do-with-learning/
