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Resistance to Learning

Overcoming the Desire Not to Know in Classroom Teaching

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. The Emotional Demands of Information Assimilation

    • Marshall Wise Alcorn Jr.
    Pages 1-41
  3. The Psychology and Biology of the Desire not to Know

    • Marshall Wise Alcorn Jr.
    Pages 43-91
  4. Symptomatic Fixation, Emotion, and Social Alliance

    • Marshall Wise Alcorn Jr.
    Pages 93-123
  5. Academic Allegiance and Attacks on Linking

    • Marshall Wise Alcorn Jr.
    Pages 125-151
  6. Information Relays and the Touched Nerves of Global Injustice

    • Marshall Wise Alcorn Jr.
    Pages 153-178
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 179-190

About this book

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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"Providing an understanding of how human communication, interaction, and reason are grounded in emotion, Alcorn has produced a work useful to teachers at every level, especially those at the university level. Rich with examples and cases that exemplify the points raised, the work provides fertile grounds for discussion and analysis of a topical, important subject." CHOICE

About the author

Marshall Wise Alcorn Jr. is Professor in the Department of English of The George Washington University, USA.

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