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Resistance to Learning

Overcoming the Desire Not to Know in Classroom Teaching
By:M. Alcorn
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137002853
eText ISBN:9781137318565
Edition:0
Copyright:2013
Format:Reflowable

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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.