The 10th European Affective Education Network Conference
on Creativity and Emotional Wellbeing
Ayr Campus, 5-8 July 2009
Organising Committee
Lisa McAuliffe, Diarmuid McAuliffe, Anne Pirrie
The International Online Journal of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education INTERACTIVE DISCOURSE will publish papers from the Conference in its Special Editon on Creativity and Emotional Wellbeing due in December 2009.
Papers to be considered for publication in the ejournal will be subject to anonymous review by three referees. Papers should be no more than 5,000 words and written in accordance with the journals requirements for submission which can be accessed here http://interactivediscourse.com/contribute.htm.
If you wish to include images [still or moving] in your paper please contact us at eaen@uws.ac.uk before submitting,
All submissions to the journal should be sent to eaen@uws.ac.uk by 1 November 2009.
Conference Programme
Click HERE TO download the conference programme
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which includes abstracts and presenter profiles
Presentations
Sharon McEwen
Aspects of the work that Sharon presented at the conference are discussed in the attached paper:
INTRODUCTION to EAEN
The European Affective Education Network was established in 1994, and has an interdisciplinary membership of scholars, researchers, and practitioners interested in the "affective" dimension of the educational process. This dimension has as its focus the personal, social, moral, cultural and spiritual development of learners, and is concerned with feelings, beliefs, attitudes, and relationships.
Though "affective education" is the term used by the network, it is recognised that this is not the only term that can describe the work referred to, and that for some of those interested in the area such terms as counselling, guidance, values education, pastoral care, personal social education, moral education, emotional literacy or emotional development will be more familiar. As far as the network is concerned, these terms and a number of others describe area which either corresponds or overlaps with the affective.
The network's aim is to provide a forum for the exploration of issues that fall under the remit of affective education, and serve as a platform for the presentation and discussion of both scholarly and more practical work on affective development and related topics. A longer term aim is to increase general awareness of the significance of the area, and through this to influence the development of educational policy in Europe.
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