The Power of Feelings: Emotion, Imagination, and the Construction of Meaning in Adult Learning

By J. Dirkx. 2001

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Subfields: Education, Human Factors and Ergonomics

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What Is a Resource: Toward a Taxonomy of Resources for Employee Engagement (2020, background): “, 2016), learning and development (Chalofsky & Cavallaro, 2013; Dirkx, 2001; Luthans, Avey, & Patera, 2008; Shuck & Rose, 2013; Valentin, 2014), team development (Valentin, 2014), skill development, career progression and planning (Ghosh & Reio, 2013), and work–life balance policies (Morris, Heames,”
The Impact of Fun and Enjoyment on Adult's Learning (2014, background): “Secondly the influence of emotions on how adults experience positive educational experiences through positive emotions (Dirkx, 2001).”
Investigating public science interest and understanding: evidence for the importance of free-choice learning (2007, result): “…the value of cultural knowledge or intellectual achievements in the sciences or technology (Ellenbogen, 2003; Falk, 2006; Falk and Storksdieck, 2005; Heimlich et al., 2005); similar conclusions have been reached by others (e.g., Brown, Collins and Duguid, 1989; Carlson, 1988; Dirkx, 2001).”
Adult learners’ emotions in online learning (2008, background): “As Dirkx (2001, 2006) has pointed out, relatively few scholars and practitioners in adult and higher education regard emotion as integral to learning.”
The role of students’ emotions in formal feedback situations (2008, background): “Despite the paradigm change in pedagogy education and research moving towards a constructivist view on knowledge creation, where knowledge is viewed as ‘contingent upon human practices, being constructed in and out of interaction between human beings and their world, and developed and transmitted wi”
Exploring Employee Engagement from the Employee Perspective: Implications for HRD. (2011, background): “Serving as motivation to pursue desires, a positive workplace climate creates purpose, shaping the context of learning experiences and plays a critical role in constructing meaning and knowledge (Dirkx, 2001).”
Rethinking Disorienting Dilemmas Within Real-Life Crises (2012, background): “Although there are some new interpretations of the transformative learning process focusing on the emotional dimension (see, e.g., Dirkx, 2001, 2008), theoretical elaborations and developments on Mezirow’s theory on these issues have been scarce (J. Mezirow, personal communication, December 1,…”
The Transformative Educator as Learning Companion (2008, background): “Individuation—differentiating one’s sense of Self from the collective of humanity and reintegrating with that same collective—is also central to the literacy learner’s transformative experience, as is the role of imagination in engaging in this type of experience (Dirkx, 1997, 2001).”
Meaningful learning in teacher education (2018, background): “…research suggests that teacher behaviour is significantly influenced by emotional aspects and emotions can either hinder or motivate learning (e.g. Dirkx, 2001; Korthagen & Evelein, 2016), it has become evident that university courses in general suffer a deficit of emotional experience (e.g.…”