Resistance to Learning - Overcoming the Desire-Not-To-Know in Classroom Teaching

"This book examines qualities of resistance to new and uncomfortable information and proposes methods for working productively with such resistance. Research in neuroscience, education, sociology, political science, and the humanities has contributed to a revisionary understanding of how emotion grounds human reason, interaction, and communication. Colleges and Universities produce and distribute information but do very little to ensure that information is effectively assimilated and employed as solutions to real problems. This book outlines an agenda that makes emotional experience central to educational practice"--

List of contents

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

Report

"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

Product details

• Authors: M Alcorn, M. Alcorn, Marshall Alcorn, Marshall W. Alcorn, Marshall Wise Alcorn
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2013
• EAN: 9781137002853
• ISBN: 978-1-137-00285-3
• No. of pages: 203
• Series: Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation; Education, Psychoanalysis, and; Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation; Education, Psychoanalysis, and
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system