Abstract:

The students’ emotional state is primordially relevant in the manifestation of cognitive, communicative, cooperation or competition interpersonal relationships inside the school group to which they belong. How the individual is impressed, touched, affected by what he is being taught and what he perceives is highly important, as these impact his relationships with others, his role within the school group and school reality.
Our research is based on the following hypothesis: if a teenager’s emotionality influences his/ her intellect, then the teenager’s emotional state influences his/ her learning process.
The research methodology consists of the method of observation, namely observing high-school students’ behaviour and its subsequent impact on their learning processes.
Our research objectives are:
- Building a strategy to analyse the processes needed to achieve emotionally positive learning in high-school education;
- Conducting a systematic observation to identify emotional learning at high-school students, during the interval of a one-day teaching practice;
- Analysing, processing and presenting the data generated by the observational research on achieving emotional learning through the infusion approach.
To demonstrate the role of the relation between emotionality and intellect as a factor impacting the adaptation process, the study was conducted at the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year, on a sample of 120 students, 14-16 years of age, 80 girls and 40 boys (from five 10th-grade classes with different specializations) from the “Ion Ghica” Economic College of Bacău, with the participation of 15 students from the Pre- and In-Service Teacher Training Department from “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, during their teaching practice stage. The research findings generated the following conclusions: 80% of the students have emotional experiences normal for their age, whereas 20% of the students have an abnormal behaviour, both during positive and negative events in their life.

Keywords:

Observational research, mental phenomena, emotionality, learning, intellect.