Jennifer Hawkins

This is a video that my assistant Yvonne made of my book launch presentation at the book launch extravaganza hosted by the Positive Communities Research Group in the Faculty for Health, Psychology & Social Care at Manchester Metropolitan University on the 31st October 2017. It is quite informative about my book - Feelings and Emotion-Based Learning: A New Theory - even though I had not presented for 5 or 6 years! #video #BookLaunch #book #feelings #emotion #learning #teaching

[Available to order from PalgraveMacmillan] ​ ​This book compares and contrasts academic learning theories with the current social human learning environment discussing them in relation to modern clinical research. It suggests that developing a feelings learning theory could inform our attitudes about learning and improve our understanding of learning behaviour. The author’s premise is that feelings, both physical and mental are rational in individuals' own terms and should b

My PhD (2010) is based on four strands of data, which took eight years to collect. I carried out collaborative action research while teaching teenage school refusers, mentoring teachers and artist action researchers - recording pupil and teacher voices and artwork. In it I collected real stories of feelings about learning using participant voices showing how this kind of teaching research can improve understanding. ​ My thesis researches and analyses feelings and emotions ab