Resistance To Learning: Overcoming The Desire Not To Know In Classroom Teaching Hardcover
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Marshall Wise Alcorn, Jr.
Book 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
ISBN-13
9781137002853
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Date
20-Sep-13
Number of Pages
190
About the Author
Marshall Wise Alcorn Jr. is Professor in the Department of English of The George Washington University, USA
Editorial Review
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