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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

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781137002853
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 2013
DEWEY: 370.1534
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 190
Weight: 368g
Height: 218mm
Width: 144mm
Spine width: 17mm