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Affect and Emotions as Productive Sense-Making Resources in STEM Education

Thu, April 13, 2:50 to 4:20pm CDT (2:50 to 4:20pm CDT), Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: West Tower - Ballroom Level, San Francisco

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium aims to explore how affect and emotion that are not traditionally positioned as valuable to learning (e.g., frustration, anger, despair) can be framed and leveraged as productive to learners’ experiences in STEM. This collection of papers takes the stance that different emotions play different roles in different social contexts and practices. As a result, the studies in the symposium build upon research on affect and emotion (Jaber & Hammer, 2016; Vea, 2020) to show how diverse and lesser studied emotions are in fact productive sensemaking resources that are intertwined with learning. Rather than framing “negative” emotions as roadblocks to disciplinary learning, this symposium argues for affect and emotion as an approach to creating dignity-affirming STEM learning environments.

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