The 11th European Affective Education Network Conference
Promoting the Social Emotional Aspects of Education: a Multi-faceted Priority
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 26th-30th June 2011
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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.