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Emotional value in the composition classroom : self, agency, and neuroplasticity / Ryan Crawford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crawford, Ryan (College teacher), author.
- Series:
- Routledge research in writing studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Composition (Language arts)--Psychological aspects.
- Composition (Language arts).
- Neuroplasticity.
- Affective neuroscience.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- Ryan Crawford is a lecturer in the English Department and Director of First-Year Writing at the University of New Haven, USA.
- Contents:
- Part 1: plasticity as a materialist account of becoming
- Modern neuroscience and composition studies
- Engaging student self before unraveling identity
- Emotion, motivation, and meaning: decision-making and creative risk
- Part 2: the biological emergence of self through emotional value
- Self as metaphor and neurobiological emergence
- Brain as apparatus and sensational ontology
- Diffraction of neuroscience, agential realism, and composition
- Situated cognition and growth mindset: the insular cortex and EBO
- Part 3: the sedimented history of emerging selves: molecular structures of learning and memory
- Memory as emotional encoding
- Microfeatures, automaticity, and procedural memory: building creative power
- Memory, learning, and transfer in composition
- Utilizing plasticity to modify affect in memory
- Part 4: wanting, liking, and meaning: intrinsic motivation and eudaemonic reward
- Eudaemonic meaning: how motivation impacts experience
- Motivating instructors: finding value through student-centered emergence
- Diffractive motivation and increase of transfer
- Discovery learning: expansion of self into environment
- Conclusion: pedagogical recommendations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 21, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Crawford, Ryan Emotional value in the composition classroom
- ISBN:
- 9781003401810
- 1003401813
- 9781000929768
- 1000929760
- 9781000929850
- 100092985X
- Publisher Number:
- 40032028034
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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