Investigating the Role of Emotions in Learning

Our focus this year is on how emotions affect and mediate our ability to attend, to learn and to remember. Some of the questions we will consider include: Why is our memory for emotionally charged events so acute? What are the circumstances that enable us to attend and focus on learning? How do emotions enable us to transfer knowledge and skills learned in school to other environments? What is the effect of emerging computer technologies, such as online learning, on our emotional selves and capacity to learn? We will use mixed method research designs to investigate these and other questions related to the educational implications of our emotional selves.

Course organization: Students spend the first semester (EDD 630) developing a research proposal around a particular area of inquiry. In the second semester (EDD 631), students implement their proposed studies. Students create measuring instruments, collect and analyze data using statistical software, discuss the educational implications of their research, and complete the final research paper. During the course of the seminar, students learn the principles of research design and analysis, and apply these principles to the design of their research projects.

Students in this section do not need to be currently teaching or student-teaching. Students who are interested in this section email Professor Shulman at shulman@mail.csi.cuny.edu.

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