Alcorn Resistance to Learning

Overcoming the Desire Not to Know in Classroom Teaching
2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-31856-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 190 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alcorn, M.

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

Über Autor(innen)

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