How Emotions & Social Factors Impact Learning | Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

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Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, a professor of education, psychology, and neuroscience at USC, discusses how emotions and social factors shape learning. She argues temperament and emotionality, combined with home and school environments, shape what people know, their concepts of self, and the meaning they develop, and she offers tools for children and adults to learn in ways suited to them. In the excerpted segment, Dr. Immordino-Yang advocates education built around in-depth, multidisciplinary projects in which students invent the question, explore a topic over months to years, and present and reflect on their learning process, contrasting that with systems she says treat curiosity as insubordinate and train children to return given answers for a performance buzz, leaving those who do not get that buzz emotionally dissociated from material.

Key takeaways

• Dr. Immordino-Yang argues emotions guide what is learned, retained, and applied.
• Dr. Immordino-Yang says temperament, home, and school environments shape concepts of self.
• Dr. Immordino-Yang advocates long-term, curiosity-driven projects with reflection on the learning process.
• Dr. Immordino-Yang argues systems rewarding only performance leave many students emotionally dissociated.
• Huberman notes the discussion offers practical tools for parents and learners of all styles.

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