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

Resistance to Learning : Overcoming the Desire Not to Know in Classroom Teaching - Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation

1st Edition 2013

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781349433971
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Edition 2013
Language: English
Number of pages: 190
Weight: 270g
Height: 139mm
Width: 215mm
Spine width: 17mm