Why Students Resist Learning

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

Resources Mentioned

• Why Students Resist Learning: A Practical Model for Understanding and Helping Students Edited by Anton O. Tolman and Janine Kremling
• Episode #169: The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux with Cathy Davidson
• SQ4R reading method
• Perry’s Scheme – Understanding the Intellectual Development of College-Age Students
• Episode #047: Developing metacognition skills in our students with Todd Zakrajsek
• No-Drama Discipline by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson*

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