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Emotional Value in the Composition Classroom: Self, Agency, and Neuroplasticity

Emotional Value in the Composition Classroom: Self, Agency, and Neuroplasticity

Crawford, Ryan

Paperback

Series: Routledge Research in Writing Studies

Writing InstructionGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1032513551
ISBN13: 9781032513553
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2024
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

This book explores recent evidence from studies in modern neuroscience to provide biological correlations between current and developing theory and pedagogy in Composition Studies. Starting with the concept of self, each subsequent chapter builds a neurobiological understanding of how emotional value, intrinsic motivation, creativity, and happiness are constructed and felt. This material exploration shows how these factors can maintain motivation, improve long-term memory, encourage creative risk, and initiate complex considerations of being. Recognizing the shift in Composition Studies to posthuman and new materialist methodologies, this modern neuroscience is presented as a useful parallel to--rather than being at odds with--these and other current methodologies, theories, and pedagogies.

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