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"--

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: M Alcorn, M. Alcorn, Marshall Alcorn, Marshall W. Alcorn, Marshall Wise Alcorn
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 19.09.2013
• EAN: 9781137002853
• ISBN: 978-1-137-00285-3
• Pagine: 203
• Serie: Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation; Education, Psychoanalysis, and; Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation; Education, Psychoanalysis, and
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia teorica; 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