The Affective Domain

In a previous post I covered off the taxonomies of learning with a focus on cognitive learning. This time I would like to go into more detail about the other side of the coin, affective learning. Acording to Donnald Clark (1999) "The affective domain includes the manner in which we deal with things emotionally, such as feelings, values, appreciation, enthusiasms, motivations, and attitudes."

This taxonomy was created by Krathwohl, Bloom, and Masia in 1973 and outlines the 5 main categories of this domain as Receiving, Responding, Valuing, Organization, and Characterization. Again these are arranged in a hierarchy as shown below.

From Donnald Clark (1999)

Bellow is the break down of these from Donnald Clark's website nwlink.com:



I plan on using these definitions along with the ones from the taxonomy of cognitive leaning to help define classroom tasks when gamifying worksheets and lesson plans. I will be using a flow diagram with these along with narrative mapping to help users of my tool kit divine which game elements to apply and how to apply them. 



References:

Clark, D. (1999) Bloom’s Taxonomy: The Affective domain. Available at: http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/Bloom/affective_domain.html (Accessed: 22 January 2016).
Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains: The Cognitive Domain. 2015. Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains: The Cognitive Domain. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html. [Accessed 17 January 2016].