Crises and Suffering as Sources of Learning

Abstract

Current learning the ories tend to focus on the intentional learning of curriculum contents. They never make thematic other human experiences. Yet in everyday life, we (a) experience disorder, pain, and afflictions to our bodies; (b) feel emotions, including the strong ones denoted by the nouns desire, hate, fear, anger, rage, affection, love, and enthusiasm; and (c) are subject to external forces and agents. All of these experiences denote various forms of – and collectively are referred to as – passions.