The integrated model of student resistance is the result of these systemic forces. These factors include what i call environmental forces, such as attitudes towards education and consumerous mentality. It also includes the students own internalization of family culture and things like this. The next major piece of that, of these kind of external forces, is just the student's prior negative experiences in the classroom. So often they struggle a lot in schoolo only because they don't understand how to navigate higher education.
Anton Tolman shares about his book Why Students Resist Learning: A Practical Model for Understanding and Helping Students edited by Anton O. Tolman and Janine Kremling on episode 171 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Everybody who has taught has run into student resistance in one form or another.
—Anton Tolman
We need to start seeing student resistance as a signal.
—Anton Tolman
When they’re resisting, they’re telling me something.
—Anton Tolman
A common error … is to believe that a lot of student resistance is because of the students themselves.
—Anton Tolman
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