Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Schneider, Sandra Beth
Author's Email Address	saschne3@vt.edu
URN	etd-03222000-20570021
Title	The Denied Affective: A Deweyan perspective on Disequilibrium
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	EDCI
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Dr. Barbara Lockee Committee Chair Dr. Jim Garrison Committee Member Dr. John Burton Committee Member
Keywords	cognition equilibrium disequilibrium Dewey
Date of Defense	2000-03-09
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The Denied Affective: A Deweyan perspective on Disequilibrium. It is the position of this paper that the body plays a crucial role in the manifestation of cognition and motivation. Cognition is situationally specific and emergent from a natural, habitual functioning process that is based on the embodied needs to transact with the environment. That natural function is the well-known Disequilibrium-Equilibrium function ( D-E f ), and the denied affective [the precognitive] is the embodied needs, desires and interests that frame selective attention and are the catalyst for emerging cognitive action. This precognitive catalyst usually contributes more to motivation than cognition. Motivation also has a cognitive component. The Disequilibrium-Equilibrium function ( D-E f ) process is part of a larger holistic embodied transaction where ‘knowing’ is a way of behaving. This larger embodied transaction is Dewey’s ‘Transactional Realism.’ In this transaction ‘inquiry’ is the tool of the goal ‘sense’ [or equilibrium] and ‘knowledge’ is the product of a transformed context. On an individual level this transformation is learning, enculturation and reflection. On a cultural level this transformation is consensual validation.
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