Ryan Crawford

Emotional Value in the Composition Classroom (eBook, ePUB)

Self, Agency, and Neuroplasticity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Using the concept of "plasticity", or the brain's ability to change through growth and reorganization, as a theoretical framework, this book argues that encouraging an exploration of the self better establishes emotional value in the composition classroom.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000929850
• Artikelnr.: 68302816

Autorenporträt

Ryan Crawford is a lecturer in the English Department and Director of First-Year Writing at the University of New Haven, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Plasticity as a Materialist Account of Becoming 1. Modern
Neuroscience and Composition Studies 2. Engaging Student Self before
Unraveling Identity 3. Emotion, Motivation, and Meaning: Decision-Making
and Creative Risk Part 2: The Biological Emergence of Self through
Emotional Value 4. Self as Metaphor and Neurobiological Emergence 5. Brain
as Apparatus and Sensational Ontology 6. Diffraction of Neuroscience,
Agential Realism, and Composition 7. Situated Cognition and Growth Mindset:
The Insular Cortex and EBO Part 3: The Sedimented History of Emerging
Selves: Molecular Structures of Learning and Memory 8. Memory as Emotional
Encoding 9. Microfeatures, Automaticity, and Procedural Memory: Building
Creative Power 10. Memory, Learning, and Transfer in Composition 11.
Utilizing Plasticity to Modify Affect in Memory Part 4: Wanting, Liking,
and Meaning: Intrinsic Motivation and Eudaemonic Reward 12. Eudaemonic
Meaning: How Motivation Impacts Experience 13. Motivating Instructors:
Finding Value through Student-Centered Emergence 14. Diffractive Motivation
and Increase of Transfer 15. Discovery Learning: Expansion of Self through
Environment Conclusion: Pedagogical Recommendations Appendix A. Operational
Definitions Appendix B. Neurobiological Correlates of Concepts