To Want to Learn: Insights and Provocations for Engaged Learning

by J., Jackson Kytle

When students are self-motivated, they work harder at learning even if resources are inadequate. This book argues that students and teachers waste time and energy because the curriculum rests on flawed mental models. Change requires theories of motivation and learning based on advances in neurobiology and cognitive studies.

249 pages, Hardcover

First published May 14, 2004

About the author

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J. has been a professional humanitarian worker for more than twenty years. During that time he has held a wide range of positions in a variety of places, including Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and North America. He's been on the front lines of many of the major international disaster response efforts of the past two decades; and he's spent his fair share of time haunting the dim, flourescent-lit shadows of cubicles in some of the world's famous household charities.

He's been a well-known blogger (in the nerdy humanitarian aid corner of the blogosphere), and is now a novelist. His first novel, Disastrous Passion, is available for purchase at Lulu.com.

His forthcoming novel is entitled "Missionary, Mercenary, Mystic, Misfit", and is the first of a humanitarian fiction trilogy.