When reading Tom's article, I was trying to figure out what the affective might be. It is characterized as something which promotes passion or provides an emotional connection (p 19). A reasoned, cognitive statement might, however, also promote passion. After a topic has been cognitively considered, is it still affective?
- Jay Howard (jhoward912@gmail.com)
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Jay,
I agree that a reasoned, cognitive statement can provoke passion. I think if I were going down this road again I might choose "Emotional Intelligence" over affective as more clearly what I mean. I think my students need to start with recognizing what they feel about things because it's most accessible. Once they understand that they can connect feeling to thought, then we can engage the process of looking carefully at the thought, seeking out its origins, turning it over, examining its history, commenting on it. To being my composition course by simply declaring we are now going to engage in analytical thinking and expecting that that makes any sense to them seems to me about the same as Samuel Johnson's comment about second marriages.
Actually, I think a weakness in the article is that I don't define the affective domain clearly enough.
Thanks for your comment.
Tom
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