Emotions in the Classroom: The Powerful Role of Classroom Relationships

Emotions seem to play an important role among those concepts that have an effect on learning processes in the classroom setting. The exitsting body of research in the field of educational psychology and neuroscience shows tha emotions are meaningfull not only when we are interested in how to learn "better", but even when examining how we learn at all. In order to build a theoretical base for the topic of this chapter, we want to start off byu describing briefly how emotions are defined in the research field of educational psychology and how we ahave decided to apply the concept if this chapter. We will then review the latest research results regarding emotions and learning in the classroom setting.