To Feel Rightly: Relating the Fine Arts to the Formal Development of the Feeling Function.

Jorgensen, Michael

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ERIC Number: ED408230

Record Type: RIE

Publication Date: 1996-Oct

Pages: 11

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To Feel Rightly: Relating the Fine Arts to the Formal Development of the Feeling Function.

Jorgensen, Michael

Leading scholars in the fields of neurology and psychology recently have published persuasive arguments linking cognition and the emotions as well as proclaiming the significance of emotional intelligence. This paper documents some of those assertions and connects them to the importance of formal education in the skills of critical feeling through the fine arts. (Author)

Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Art Education, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Development, Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Paper presented at the Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists (10th, New York, NY, October 16-18, 1996).