relationships

This is the second of three posts examining social context, interpersonal relationships, and emotional well-being and the extent to which they are important to learning. This is #14 in my series on the Top 20 Principles From Psychology for Teaching and Learning: “Interpersonal relationships and communication are critical to both the teaching–learning process and the social-emotional development of students.” Guess what? Psychologists have discovered that relationship are important in teaching. Who knew? This falls squarely into the 'how obvious' camp and as such seems to require little in the way of investigation. Quite simply, how could relationship not be important to teaching [...]