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Mental preconditions control a great deal in the teaching-learning dynamic.
The more faculty become aware of them, the more quickly they become allies rather than obstacles in teaching. Perhaps that's because many such appeals appear not to value what we already know. They seem to ask us to take on a whole new way of looking at things. The appeals to greater or different awareness in this issue of the Forum don't make that mistake. These appeals only ask us to shift in our chair or walk across the room or realize that, often without realizing it, we already understand better than we knew.