[IFETS-DISCUSSION:879] RE: Fear and the Learning Process

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Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:879] RE: Fear and the Learning Process
From: James Atherton (jamesa@dmu.ac.uk)
Date: Thu 11 Jan 2001 - 10:50:13 MET 

From: James Atherton <jamesa@dmu.ac.uk>
Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:879] RE: Fear and the Learning Process
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:50:13 -0000

> Barry Kort wrote
> I'm curious whether others here have any perspective on the role of
> fear in accelerating or decelerating the learning process.
>
        I have had a particular interest in resistance to learning,
particularly among experienced professionals undertaking professional
development programmes. My major finding implicates fear, but more
specifically in relation to loss, where learning is equated with change and
in turn with loss. Brief summary at
http://www.staff.dmu.ac.uk/~jamesa/learning/resistan.htm with link to
reference.

Dr James Atherton
Principal Lecturer and Teacher Fellow
School of Education
De Montfort University UK
+44 (0) 1234 793156
jamesa@dmu.ac.uk
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/~jamesa/
also at: james@athertonline.co.uk
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