Exploring Emotions, Aesthetics and Wellbeing in Science Education Research

1. Emotions, Aesthetics and Wellbeing in Science Education: Theoretical Foundations
Alberto Bellocchi, Cassie F. Quigley, Kathrin Otrel-Cass

Part I. Aesthetics in Science Education

2. Back to the Drawing Board: Examining the Philosophical Foundations of Educational Research on Aesthetics and Emotions
Per-Olof Wickman

3. Taste for Science: A Bourdieu-Pragmatism Approach to Interest, Aesthetics and Learning
Per Anderhag

4. The Heart of the Educator: Aesthetic Experience Shaping Knowledge, Identity, and Passion
Linda Hobbs, Leissa Kelly

Part II. Emotion and Affect in Science Education

5. Interaction Ritual Approaches to Emotion and Cognition in Science Learning Experiences
Alberto Bellocchi

6. Emotional Events in Learning Science
Stephen M. Ritchie, Jennifer Beers Newlands

7. Emotions, Social Beings, and Ethnomethods: Understanding Analogical Reasoning in Everyday Science Classrooms
James P. Davis

8. Our Neighborhood: A Place for Heightening Emotional Energy in Science Education
Kristin Cook, Gayle Buck

9. Emotions: Connecting with the Missing Body
Liv Kondrup Kristensen, Kathrin Otrel-Cass

10. Interest and Emotions in Science Education
Morten Rask Petersen, Niels Bonderup Dohn

11. Science and the Arts: Curriculum Integration, Learning, and Emotions in Schools
Tatiana Chemi

Part III. Wellness and Wellbeing in Science Education

12. Jin Shin Jyutsu and Ameliorating Emotion, Enhancing Mindfulness, and Sustaining Productive Learning Environments
Kenneth Tobin, Konstantinos Alexakos, Anna Malyukova, Al-Karim H. Gangji

13. The Role of Care in Environmental Education
Cassie F. Quigley, Renée Lyons

14. Afterword: Science Education and Promises of Aesthetics, Emotion and Wellbeing
Steve Alsop

Nyckelord: Education, Science Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Psychology, Sociology of Education