Resistance to Learning

Overcoming the Desire Not to Know in Classroom Teaching

AvM. Alcorn

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Del i serien Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation

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Alcorn examines qualities of student resistance to new and uncomfortable information and proposes methods for teachers to work productively with such resistance. Drawing on research from numerous disciplines showing how emotion grounds human reason, he outlines an agenda that makes emotional experience central to educational practice.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-09-20
Mått:140 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:270 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation
Antal sidor:190
Upplaga:13001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349433971

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Marshall Wise Alcorn Jr. is Professor in the Department of English of The George Washington University, USA.

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"Providing an understanding of how human communication, interaction, and reason are grounded in emotion, Alcorn has produced a work useful to teachers at every level, especially those at the university level. Rich with examples and cases that exemplify the points raised, the work provides fertile grounds for discussion and analysis of a topical, important subject." CHOICE

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Emotional Demands of Information Assimilation 2. The Psychology and Biology of the Desire Not to Know 3. Symptomatic Fixation, Emotion, and Social Alliance 4. Academic Allegiance and Attacks on Linking 5. Information Relays and the Touched Nerves of Global Injustice