The Missing Piece: Enactment in Revealing and Redirecting Student Prior KnowledgeCan Enactment Expose Affect, Illuminate Mental Models, and Improve Assessment and Learning?
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Affect: 1) an observable expression of emotion.2) non-conscious experience of intensity.3) the body's way of preparing itself for action in a given circumstance by adding a dimension of intensity to the quality of an experience.Assessment: gathering information on students' prior knowledge, skills and attitudes toward a subject. Conception: a learner's internal representation of an event or subject; see mental model.Embodied cognition: the philosophy that human cognition and consciousness can only be understood in terms of the physical body and the world with which the body interacts.Embodied simulation: for the purposes of this paper, the term embodied simulation is interchangeable with mental simulation: mentally reenacting sensory experiences.Embodiment: mental simulation of physical events.Emotional reinstatement: enactment that involves recalling an emotional situation by reenacting a face to retrieve emotions that were experienced during the event.
Author: Alison McKim
Institution: Case Western Reserve University
Language: English
Topic: Innovative Teaching Methods
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2514757718