Comstock Connections between Neuroscience and Writing Composition

Plasticity, Care, and Pedagogy
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-81383-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 198 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Education

Considering how recent findings from neuroscience, cognitive science, and affect theory relate to pedagogies of writing, this book builds on the scholarship of attention and the body in Greek and Modernist discourses on writing. Drawing on recent intersections between neuroscience and post-structuralist philosophy, Comstock explores the concept of "plasticity" in relation to writing pedagogy for the contemporary classroom. Offering important insights into the uses and limits of exciting new findings from the field of neuroscience and neuro-philosophy, this book provides a new understanding of the role of the body and emotions in writing and learning, and offers ways to overcome students’ inattention and dissatisfaction in the classroom.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Comstock, Edward

Comstock, Edward J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Foucault’s Embodied Greek Ethics: Hypnomnemata and Self Care

- "Utterly Stupid and Uninteresting Lectures on Rhetoric": The Modernist Crisis of Attention and the Dissolution of the Classical Curriculum

- The Attention Economy and the Second Crisis of Attention

- Antonio Damasio, Catherine Malabou and Plasticity: Hegel’s Return

- Resisting Flexibility: Uses and Limits of Neuroscience in Pedagogy

Über Autor(innen)

Edward J. Comstock is Senior Lecturer of Literature at American University, USA.