The Risks of Knowing - Developmental Impediments to School Learning (Hardcover, 1991 ed.)

It gives me great pleasure to introduce this important and fascinating book on the internal dilemmas youngsters face in school, which often cause them to stop learning. We are all too ready to ascribe learning problems to an inability to learn and leave it at that. This book should go a long way toward convincing us that using such simpleminded explanations and remedial efforts based on them do not work. Unlike other books that identify the causes of learning disabilities in children or that detail society's impact on the so-called helpless child, The Risks of Knowing is an in-depth study of young people who for reasons of intrapsychic conflicts and of intellectual development make a nega tive decision about the learning process. This book is unique in its thorough analysis of the conflicts young people have with learning and in its treatment prescriptions. In case after case, Karen Zelan demonstrates that if young people declare themselves unable to learn it is because for some valid reasons they believe learning is dangerous. The reasons that cause a decision to fail often remain unconscious until they are brought to the child's awareness. When the child is helped to understand the source of any inner dilemmas, both child and parents are able to find better solutions to immediate learning difficulties. Karen Zelan brings a rare expertise to the problems young people find in academic learning."

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Perspectives in Developmental Psychology
Release date:	March 1991
First published:	1991
Authors:	Karen Zelan
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	329
Edition:	1991 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-306-43759-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > General
LSN:	0-306-43759-7
Barcode:	9780306437595

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