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

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.

Author: M. Alcorn
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/20/2013
Pages: 190
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781137002853

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2014

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