Underachieving to Protect Self-Worth: Advice for Teachers, Teacher-Educators and Counsellors

by Ted Thompson

First published in 1999, this volume strives to present an integrated account of how failure avoidance may be reduced. Ted Thompson asks: why is failure so aversive and why do people to almost any lengths to avoid it? This is a book about implications for organising the context of classroom learning: how teachers may interact with students on a one-to-one basis in ways which foster positive achievement gains, strategies for enhancing self-esteem...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113836388X
• ISBN13: 9781138363885
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.4"