Resistance to Learning
Overcoming the Desire Not to Know in Classroom Teaching
Published on 20. September 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 190 pages
978-1-349-43397-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XIII, 190 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
269 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-43397-1 (9781349433971)
DOI
10.1057/9781137318565
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
Marshall Wise Alcorn Jr. is Professor in the Department of English of The George Washington University, USA.
Content
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