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Resistance to Learning: Overcoming the Desire-Not-To-Know in Classroom Teaching (Psychoanalysis, Education and Social Transformation)
Marshall Wise Alcorn
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Description for Resistance to Learning: Overcoming the Desire-Not-To-Know in Classroom Teaching (Psychoanalysis, Education and Social Transformation)
Hardcover. 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. Series: Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMRL; JNA; JNC; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation
Number of Pages
190
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137002853
SKU
V9781137002853
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Ref
99-15
About Marshall Wise Alcorn
Marshall Wise Alcorn Jr. is Professor in the Department of English of The George Washington University, USA.
Reviews for Resistance to Learning: Overcoming the Desire-Not-To-Know in Classroom Teaching (Psychoanalysis, Education and Social Transformation)
"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