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To Want to Learn : Insights and Provocations for Engaged Learning by Jackson Kytle (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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When students are self-motivated, they work harder at learning even if resources are inadequate. This book argues that students and teachers waste time and energy because the curriculum rests on flawed mental models. Change requires theories of motivation and learning based on advances in neurobiology and cognitive studies. 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 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
Who reads To Want to Learn : Insights and Provocations for Engaged Learning?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jackson Kytle (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan : [distributor] Not Avail
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781137309877
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Education, Psychology, Philosophy
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