2008
Powerful feelings: Exploring the affective domain of informal and arts‐based learning
Abstract: The arts engage our senses, provoking strong, affective responses for both the creator and the witness of art. Our emotions can provide a catalyst for informal adult learning beyond traditional, cognitive ways of knowing.
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Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 64%
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Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 64%
“…As Clover (2010), for example illustrates, the use of critical lenses can illuminate the dynamics of in/visibility/authority of knowledges in museums and in feminist art (Clover, Sanford, & Dogus, 2011;Knowles & Cole, 2008). The findings shared here offer insights into professional education that use transformative approaches that affirm the value of affirming the emotional and spiritual dimensions of learning for both educators and learners (Clark & Dirkx, 2008;Dirkx, 2006;Geetzlaf & Osborne, 2010;Kasworm, 2008;Lawrence, 2008;Taylor, 2006;Tolliver & Tisdell, 2006). They foreground the specific challenges and strengths of diversity education in a context of transformative education (Baumgartner & Johnson-Bailey, 2008;Briskin, 2001;Gregory et al, 2010;James, 2001;Jones, 2009;Macdonald & MacDonnell, 2008;McGibbon & Etowa, 2009), and in particular in online venues (Smith, 2008).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 78%
“…Our theoretical orientations inform the assumption behind our review criteria that making/performing arts involves aesthetic embodied expressions producing profound experiential knowing (Lawrence, 2008(Lawrence, , 2012a)). Leavy (2018) stated that "our brains respond in critical ways as we engage in art making, as we enter 'flow' states of creativity, and as we consume art" (p. 7).…”
Section: The Affective and Embodied Experiential And Expressive Knowi...mentioning
confidence: 82%
