[Article]Bring ideas into action: Developing a Cognitive/Affective Teaching Framework in Energy Education

Although the energy issues have existed for nearly 15 years, only recently has its surge of mainstream popularity motivated many researchers to acknowledge its educational value. In Taiwan, the aims of several national projects promoted by the Ministry of Education (MOE) are to improve the quality of energy education (e.g. MOE’s Energy Education Pilot Project). However, the research observes the importance of affective aspects for energy education, which is an area that is under-researched and under-discussed. This study develops a cognitive/affective teaching model based on the revision of Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy and Krathwohl’s Affective Taxonomy, in which the teacher guides students to construct an individual knowledge structure by a series of learning activities such as reading, writing, and sharing blog entries. [Link]