Academic underachievement of students from disadvantaged backgrounds is an ongoing and unresolved problem. Schools serving vulnerable communities often fail to meaningfully engage their students who are often exposed to significant family and environmental adversities. However, where the educational landscape is overwhelmed with neoliberal…

The problem this study addressed is that school districts have employed specialized Emotional-Behavioral Disability (EBD) classrooms to help facilitate greater participation in the general education setting by students with EBD; however, general education elementary teachers' intention towards inclusion of EBD students is a barrier to reaching the…

This study explores the relationship between elementary teacher candidate affective dispositions and the action of STEM lesson planning. While affective dispositions are important, understanding the connection between dispositions and practice is key. Teacher candidates' affective dispositions about STEM education and instructional planning were…

As digital technologies continue transforming the time and space boundaries that traditionally had been ascribed to different educational settings, the very notion of learning "context" also is being challenged in educational research literature. In this article, we contribute to this debate by offering an empirically grounded discussion…

This collaborative self-study examines the critical friendship of two doctoral students charged with teaching a methods course in elementary social studies. The authors formed a critical friendship in Fall 2010, initiated by participation in a teacher educator community of practice that encouraged collaboration. With limited experience in…

Being an ecologically literate citizen involves making decisions that are based on ecological knowledge and accepting responsibility for personal actions. Using writing-to-learn activities in college science courses, we asked students to consider personal dilemmas that they or others might have in response to how human choices can impact coastal…

Perhaps more than any other academic discipline, physical education holds the highest potential for teaching affective skills. By its very nature, the typical physical education setting offers countless teachable moments and opportunities to capitalize on the development of affective skills. The seeming lack of attention given to affective…

If a quick-tempered student is helped to deal with anger, she or he has learned an important lesson. Sixteen strategies to teach self-control are presented and discussed. (MT)

Highlights some thoughts about affective responses to literature as a work of art and an aesthetic literary experience. (HTH)

In a rural school in the Southeast, 60 randomly chosen fourth grade boys and girls read a 300-word passage from their basal readers, and a Cloze test on the passage with 40 elisions of every fifth meaningful word was administered. (Author)

A teacher of children with multiple disabilities reviews an adaptation of the "Conflict Cycle" designed to help children understand their conflicts through concrete manipulation of cards involving visual, auditory, and tactile modalities. (CL)

Three films recommended for class use are reviewed. Five other films are noted briefly. The films deal with affective issues such as handling rejection, being bullied, and being self-conscious. (MT)

Investigation of the effects of an in-school curriculum designed to encourage children's awareness of and attention to television's prosocial portrayals revealed that the curriculum was successful in helping children to isolate and identify commercial television's prosocial fare. (Author/CB)

On multiple measures of chronic, manifest anxiety, the intellectually gifted sample (N=465) consistently displayed lower levels of anxiety than their nongifted peers (N=329), indicating better overall adjustment. (Author)

A mood chart allows learning and/or behavior disabled students (8-12 years old) to evaluate and monitor their present mood. The chart can also be used to analyze the relationship between mood and inappropriate behavior, to communicate with parents, and to promote children's awareness and understanding of each other's feelings. (CL)