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

ISBN-13:	9781137002853
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	09/20/2013
Series:	Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	190
Sales rank:	1,157,243
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 5.70(h) x 0.70(d)

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.