Curriculum significance of the affective domain

The taxonomy handbook dealing with affective domain refers to it as follows: Objectives which emphasize a feeling tone, an emotion, or a degree of acceptance or rejection.1 A review of the more recent literature, and discussions with those who deal with affect in practice, leads to the definition for this paper as provisions for the growth of attitudes and behaviors that deal with feelings, emotions, values and, in general, the personal concerns of students. Whereas the definition does not provide for social or group settings, neither does it deny that social concerns may legitimately be the substance of affective encounters. It does, however, separate self-knowledge from other kinds of knowledge.