Discusses how to apply lessons from the research on motivation in the classroom, from elementary through high school.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Alcorn examines qualities of student resistance to new and uncomfortable information and proposes methods for teachers to work productively with such resistance

Written as a series of candid dialogues between the author and K-12 students, teachers, counselors, and administrators, Activating the Desire to Learn shows how

A popular model of human action treats it as universally explicable by appeal to what we want. A related view evaluates our actions as rational or otherwise by