Why Well-Being, Why Now?: Tracing an Alternate Genealogy of Emotion in Composition

Autor/in	Belli, Jill
Titel	Why Well-Being, Why Now?: Tracing an Alternate Genealogy of Emotion in Composition
Quelle	In: Composition Forum, 34 (2016), (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1522-7502
Schlagwörter	Well Being; Higher Education; Freshman Composition; Writing Instruction; Psychology; Ideology; Interdisciplinary Approach; Attitude Change; Educational Trends; Rhetoric; Educational Change + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Schreibunterricht; Psychologie; Ideologie; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Bildungsentwicklung; Rhetorik; Bildungsreform
Abstract	This article critically analyzes under-acknowledged influences on the recent turn toward emotions, happiness, and well-being in higher education generally and in writing studies specifically: positive psychology (the science of happiness) and positive education (teaching well-being). I provide an overview of their primary features and complicate their assumptions, values, and goals. I also highlight their overlap with and implications for writing studies, including connections and shared concepts between writing and well-being, the central role of writing in positive psychology and positive education pedagogies, and the potential for writing studies to critique and influence well-being education. I argue that embracing emotion as a key component of our pedagogy and scholarship introduces ideological commitments that may challenge and even undermine our personal and professional beliefs. Positive psychology and positive education deserve our sustained attention, and any consideration about emotions in composition will need to confront these movements' influential version of teaching well-being. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition. e-mail: cf@compositionforum.com; Web site: http://compositionforum.com
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01