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Emotion and Technology Education

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The link between emotion and technology education may not be an obvious one, however our emotions are central to our everyday decision making and responses to stimuli. As such it is essential that all learners develop an emotional literacy in order to better understand their emotions, and this can be achieved through technology education. More specifically within technology education, and through this chapter, the link between emotion and creativity will be explored. In addition how our emotions link to the concepts of agency and metacognition will also be explored. Finally, emotion will be examined within three domains of Person, Process, Product, which allows us to conceptualise the contribution and location of emotion within technology education.

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Spendlove, D. (2018). Emotion and Technology Education. In: de Vries, M. (eds) Handbook of Technology Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44687-5_38

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