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Resistance to learning Overcoming the desire-not-to-know in classroom teaching /

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 experie...

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Main Authors: Alcorn, Marshall Wise
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Psychoanalysis, education and social transformation
Subjects:
Educational psychology
Defense mechanisms Psychology
Emotions and cognition
Philosophy & theory of education
Learning
Teaching skills & techniques
Education
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137318565
Summary: 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.
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Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9781137002853, 2013.
Carrier Form: 208 p.
ISBN: 9781137002853
9781137318565 :
1137318562 :
CLC: G442
Contents: 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.

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