How Emotions Influence Learning

1. Emotion is recognized as physiological, cognitive, and cultural.

2. A continual emphasis on emotional self-management can lend itself to rigid definitions of “success,” “appropriate skills,” and “career readiness”.

3. It is important for practitioners to look beyond the “problem behavior” itself to consider how emotions and actions are shaped by cultural and historical factors.

4. When researchers and curriculum designers feel compelled to confine emotions to individual bodies and pinpoint the starting and stopping points of emotional energy, alternative ways of knowing are closed off.

5. Through cross-cultural studies, scientists have identified six universal emotions: joy, fear, surprise, disgust, anger, and sadness.