The Emotional Experience of Learning and Teaching

by Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg (Editor)

This book aims to heighten the awareness of the emotional factors which enter into the process of learning and teaching. It is based on the work done by the authors with a group of teachers who attended the Tavistock Clinic for a course called Aspects of Counselling in education.

176 pages, Paperback

First published September 22, 1983

Reviews

[Toby Newton]

Forty years old, still largely ignored, indeed, probably enjoying a new phase of assumed irrelevance, as schools double-down on 'tough love', 'zero tolerance', 'preemptive discipline' and all the other euphemisms for giving kids a good kicking.

Interesting to read this at the same time as Jean Hardy's "A Wiser Politics", which contends that the woeful and sadistic state of contemporary politics is attributable to the dysfunctional, troubled, unhappy, emotionally-impoverished childhoods of the pioneers of late Renaissance and early Enlightenment political philosophy. She's right, I think, and the intervening years - right up to the present - have been a protracted, determined exercise to consolidate and amplify the effects.

Small wonder humans, en masse, treat one another with such miscomprehension and disdain.