Title: Resistance To Learning Overcoming The Desirenottoknow In Classroom Teaching
Description: "This book examines qualities of resistance to new and uncomfortable information and proposes methods for working productively with such resistance. Research in neuroscience, education, sociology, political science, and the humanities has contributed to a revisionary understanding of how emotion grounds human reason, interaction, and communication. Colleges and Universities produce and distribute information but do very little to ensure that information is effectively assimilated and employed as solutions to real problems. This book outlines an agenda that makes emotional experience central to educational practice"--
Subjects: Educational psychology, Defense mechanisms (psychology), Emotions and cognition, Higher Education, EDUCATION / Higher, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, EDUCATION / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology, EDUCATION, Essays, Organizations & Institutions, Reference