Emotional Value in the Composition Classroom - Self, Agency, and Neuroplasticity

Using the concept of "plasticity", or the brain's ability to change through growth and reorganization, as a theoretical framework, this book argues that encouraging an exploration of the self better establishes emotional value in the composition classroom.

List of contents

Part 1: Plasticity as a Materialist Account of Becoming 1. Modern Neuroscience and Composition Studies 2. Engaging Student Self before Unraveling Identity 3. Emotion, Motivation, and Meaning: Decision-Making and Creative Risk Part 2: The Biological Emergence of Self through Emotional Value 4. Self as Metaphor and Neurobiological Emergence 5. Brain as Apparatus and Sensational Ontology 6. Diffraction of Neuroscience, Agential Realism, and Composition 7. Situated Cognition and Growth Mindset: The Insular Cortex and EBO Part 3: The Sedimented History of Emerging Selves: Molecular Structures of Learning and Memory 8. Memory as Emotional Encoding 9. Microfeatures, Automaticity, and Procedural Memory: Building Creative Power 10. Memory, Learning, and Transfer in Composition 11. Utilizing Plasticity to Modify Affect in Memory Part 4: Wanting, Liking, and Meaning: Intrinsic Motivation and Eudaemonic Reward 12. Eudaemonic Meaning: How Motivation Impacts Experience 13. Motivating Instructors: Finding Value through Student-Centered Emergence 14. Diffractive Motivation and Increase of Transfer 15. Discovery Learning: Expansion of Self through Environment Conclusion: Pedagogical Recommendations Appendix A. Operational Definitions Appendix B. Neurobiological Correlates of Concepts

About the author

Ryan Crawford is a lecturer in the English Department and Director of First-Year Writing at the University of New Haven, USA.

Summary

Using the concept of "plasticity", or the brain’s ability to change through growth and reorganization, as a theoretical framework, this book argues that encouraging an exploration of the self better establishes emotional value in the composition classroom.

Product details

• Authors: Ryan Crawford, Ryan (University of New Haven Crawford, Crawford Ryan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032513553
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3251355-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Research in Writing Studies
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; EDUCATION / General, Linguistics, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Philosophy of Mind, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, EDUCATION / Classroom Management, Educational psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Communication Studies, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Composition