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Resistance to Learning M. Alcorn

Resistance to Learning By M. Alcorn

Resistance to Learning by M. Alcorn


Summary

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.

Resistance to Learning Summary

Resistance to Learning: Overcoming the Desire Not to Know in Classroom Teaching by M. Alcorn

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.

Resistance to Learning Reviews

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

About M. Alcorn

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

Table 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

Additional information

NLS9781349433971
9781349433971
1349433977
Resistance to Learning: Overcoming the Desire Not to Know in Classroom Teaching by M. Alcorn
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2013-09-20
190
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