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

Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor Marshall Wise Alcorn Jr. is Professor in the Department of English of The George Washington University, USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: M Alcorn, M. Alcorn
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349433971
• ISBN: 978-1-349-43397-1
• No. of pages: 203
• Series: Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation; Education, Psychoanalysis, and; Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Pädagogik, Pädagogische Psychologie, B, Hochschulbildung, Fort- und Weiterbildung, Pädagogik: Theorie und Philosophie, Education, Educational psychology, philosophy of education, Education, general, higher education, Philosophy & theory of education, cognitive psychology, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Educational Philosophy, Education—Philosophy, Education—Psychology, Philosophy and social sciences, Palgrave Education Collection