Motivational Immediacy in the Workplace: Facilitating Learner Engagement in Training Environments

ISBN-13: 9780367699857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 218 str.

Jonathan E. Taylor

Opis

This book focuses on fostering learner engagement with an emphasis on the role of the instructor and addresses the work and concerns of curriculum writers and training directors. The author provides concrete steps for practical action and a comprehensive conceptualization of learning engagement and resistance.

Spis treści

SECTION I: Motivational Immediacy: Changing the Way We Think;  1. Something or Someone;  2. Learning Engagement and Learning Resistance;  3. Motivational Immediacy;  4. From Learning Resistance to Efficient and Effectual Learning;  5. Zones of Engagement;   6. Training through Conceptual Change Frameworks;   SECTION II: Motivational Immediacy: Changing the Way We Practice;  7. Instructional Methods and Lesson Plans;  8. Motivational Immediacy in the Classroom;  9. Curriculum and Instructional Systems Design;  10. Measuring Effectual Learning;  11. Motivational Immediacy, Ethical Dilemmas, and Facilitator as Mediator;  12. Learning as Connection

O autorze

Jonathan E. Taylor is an Associate Professor at Auburn University (USA). He holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Research from the University of Tennessee. Prior to his academic career, he spent over a decade as a training coordinator and an instructor in workplace contexts. His areas of interest and scholarship are applied philosophy, conceptual change, and learning resistance and engagement in workplace contexts.