Emotional Learning
Today, the focus on learning is providing cognitive knowledge.
However, acquiring knowledge does not necessarily provide long-term retention or insight.
Cognitive knowledge provides information by itself, but how this information is interpreted, remembered, and used depends on the meaning that we give it.
Meaning is primarily dependent on our feelings and emotions.
In 1973, Read and Simon stated, “…feelings and perceptions are not more important than thinking and knowing, but rather as important in the total educational program” (p.xi). It is nonetheless recognised that cognitive knowledge is necessary to develop the skills required by the profession and employing bodies.
On the other hand, developing an understanding of one’s own feelings assists students in gaining a better awareness of one’s inner world and inner strengths and increases their ability to act with insight, authority, and independence based on the knowledge gained.
Read, D.A. & Simon S. (1973). Humanistic source book, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
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