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

This book explores how the concept of plasticity, or the brains ability to change through growth and reorganization, can establish emotional value in the composition classroom. It provides biological correlations between current and developing theory and pedagogy in Composition Studies, recognizing the shift to posthuman and new materialist methodologies. It outlines the need for a more student-focused, guided-discovery framework.

Format: Hardback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 24 August 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book explores the concept of plasticity, or the brain's ability to change through growth and reorganization, as a theoretical framework to enhance emotional value in the composition classroom. By examining recent evidence from studies in modern neuroscience, it seeks to provide biological correlations between current and developing theory and pedagogy in Composition Studies.

The book begins with an exploration of the self, building a neurobiological understanding of how emotional value, intrinsic motivation, creativity, and happiness are constructed and experienced. Each subsequent chapter delves deeper into these factors, showcasing how they can maintain motivation, improve long-term memory, encourage creative risk-taking, and initiate complex considerations of being.

Recognizing the shift in Composition Studies towards posthuman and new materialist methodologies, the book presents modern neuroscience as a valuable parallel to these approaches rather than being at odds with them. It outlines the need for a more student-focused, guided-discovery framework in the composition classroom, making it an interdisciplinary resource for scholars and students in Composition Studies, Communication Studies, Education, Psychology, and Philosophy.

Through its comprehensive exploration of plasticity and its implications for the composition classroom, this book offers valuable insights into the potential for emotional growth and development in students. It encourages educators to embrace new methodologies and frameworks that prioritize student-centered learning and promote the exploration of the self as a means to enhance emotional value and overall well-being in the writing process.

Weight: 590g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032513546