affective education

affective education

in Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives, any program in which learning is focused on the relation between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. The goals of affective education are twofold: (a) to help children become familiar with a range of feelings (e.g., anger, fear, sadness, and excitement), differentiate among them, and understand the connections of these feelings to thoughts and behaviors; and thus (b) to encourage positive behavior change.