Resistance to Learning: Overcoming the Desire Not to Know in Classroom Teaching

By Marshall Wise Alcorn, Jr.

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137002859
• ISBN13: 9781137002853
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"