Fragile Learning
Subtitle: The Influence of Anxiety
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781782202592
Subjects: Anxiety
Description: What are the barriers and obstacles to adults learning? What makes the process of adult learning so fragile? And what exactly do we mean by Fragile Learning? This book addresses these questions in two ways. In Part One, it looks at challenges to learning, examining issues such as language invention in a maximum security prison, geography and bad technology, and pedagogic fragility in Higher Education. Through a psychoanalytic lens, Fragile Learning examines authorial illness and the process of slow recovery as a tool for reflective learning, and explores ethical issues in problem-based learnin.