Affective Teaching. . - book review

Adolescence, Winter, 2002

ROMPELMAN, Lynne. Affective Teaching. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002. 72pp. $26.00 (p).

Research suggests that the key to substantial educational reform is the displacement of didactic strategies by a more personalized approach to teaching; an affective emphasis in teaching is implicated. In Affective Teaching, Lynne Rompelman extends the research on the affective domain by incorporating students' and teachers' voices regarding the nature of caring of teachers within an academic setting. Students emphasize that certain aspects of the affective domain are important to an environment in which they become fully engaged in learning. Knowledge of the teachers about the affective domain, alone, is not sufficient for their effectiveness in the classroom. The actual employment of affective techniques is necessary to promote student involvement.