Tacit Commitments: Unpacking Conceptual Variance in the Study of Emotions in Andragogy

• In Event: RTD - Precedent, Emotions, and Instructional Design

Short Description

Applying Bostwick et al.’s proposed methodology for assessing competing instructional theories, we re-examine competing theories of emotion, digging down to the “ontology” (in the computing rather than the philosophical sense) of theory to classify theories in terms of their implications as well as their use of words, to avoid either false synthesis or false dichotomy. What tacit assumptions guide theory on emotion and learning, and how might those assumptions influence design decisions?

Authors

• Joy A.R. Eliot, University of Central Florida

• Atsusi Hirumi, University of Central Florida