What is Affective Learning?
Affective learning reaches the emotional and belief system aspects of those who facilitate and participate in it. As an area of study, affective learning has been defined both by the types of educational objectives sought in planning educational experiences, and through conceptual models portraying the range of impact possible. Practitioners attempt to reach the affective domain when they write objectives which emphasize a feeling tone, an emotion, or a degree of acceptance or rejection .expressed as interests, attitudes, appreciations, values, and emotional sets or biases (Krathwohl, et al, 1964, p. 7). These types of objectives are typically oriented toward participants feelings, and they are often difficult to measure in quantifiable terms. However, many adult educators seem to possess an intuitive sense that these types of results are important; we simply want our students to appreciate what they are learning, or to feel good about themselves while in our classrooms. In fact, adult
