Resistance to Learning [electronic resource] : Overcoming the Desire Not to Know in Classroom Teaching /
Alcorn, M.author.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
Cognitive psychology.
Educational psychology.
Education—Psychology.
Higher education.
Education.
Education—Philosophy.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Cognitive Psychology.
Educational Psychology.
Higher Education.
Education, general.
Educational Philosophy.
Philosophy of Education.