To want to learn [[electronic resource] ] : insights and provocations for engaged learning / / by Jackson Kytle

• Autore: Kytle Jackson <1941->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.15/4; 370.154
• Soggetto topico: Motivation in education; Learning
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: To Want to Learn; 1 Educator as Idealist; 2 Gritty Reality; 3 Perspectives on Engaged Living; Part II: Brain, Mind, and Body; 4 Psychology of Involvement; 5 Learning, Motivation, and Biological Systems; Part III: Considerations for Learning and Motivation; 6 Ten Considerations for Better Learning; 7 Six Considerations to Improve Motivation; Conclusion; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Lack of learner motivation is the single greatest challenge before American schools and colleges. When students are self-motivated, they invest more and work harder at learning even if resources are inadequate. Jackson Kytle's provocative book argues that students and teachers waste time and human energy because the conventional curriculum rests on flawed mental models. Hope for change requires a searching critique of modernity as well as expanded theories of human motivation and learning based on advances in neurobiology and cognitive studies. After consideration of existentialism and choice
• Titolo autorizzato: To want to learn
• ISBN: 1-281-36753-2; 1-283-73688-8; 1-137-30987-3; 9786611367534; 1-4039-7381-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784219103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II