Jennifer Hawkins

This book is both joyful to read, and is also immensely powerful for its three main constituents. For teachers it provides a powerful and timely book that brings together notions of teacher experience and expertise with the importance of considering feelings and emotions while teaching. For academics the work provides a new and well researched theory of learning and contextualizes this amongst other prominent learning work. And for those who want to engage in feeling related

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