TPE C

Judy Willis' article The Neuroscience of Joyful Education I found quite fascinating. The deep frustrations youth have in a classroom, and their reactions to the environment of education has a scientific and neuro explanation. What stood out was the point that "students retain what they learn when the learning is associated with strong positive emotion." Simultaneously, negative emotions hinders the learning process. How can academics also create a positive and enriching experience to reinforce those very same academics? Such question leads to the point about abstraction in the classroom. Willis states, "[when] stress in the classroom is getting high, it is often because a lesson is overly abstract or seems irrelevant to students." Demonstrating that the accessibility of the academics can be understood as well as is delivered in a medium that fosters a positive experience, then that actual academic concepts stand far more firm than otherwise, and the level of education goes up. That being the case, immediate relevancy is something that can be offered. Academics is also based on understanding abstract concepts. Take math, philosophy and economics as examples. But nevertheless, to find a position where students can absorb such information in a positive way, will put them in more of medium to absorb more difficult and abstract concepts.