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Discuss the significance of the unconscious and/or emotions and/or intuition in learning.
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Discuss the significance of the unconscious and/or emotions and/or intuition in learning. This essay will discuss the significance of the unconscious in learning and how experience can be gained without awareness. It will also examine the extent to which educational establishments pay attention to emotional intelligence and how emotions and feelings can block the learning process, and finally it will mention how intuition and insight prove to be relevant when learning new skills. To start, I would like to define emotions as being 'a feeling and its distinctive thoughts, psychological and biological states, and range of propensities' (Goleman : 1996 : 289). Goleman is the person most commonly associated with the term Emotional Intelligence. In his readings, he came upon the work of Mayer and Salovey. In 1995 his book 'Emotional Intelligence; was published. In this book, he had collected a lot of interesting information on the brain, emotions and behaviour promoting...
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