Troubled Hearts, Troubled Minds: How Emotions Affect Learning - Softcover

Peter Nelmes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178583410X ISBN 13: 9781785834103

Publisher: Crown House Pub Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

In 'Troubled Hearts, Troubled Minds: Making sense of the emotional dimension of learning', Peter Nelmes delivers key lessons on how we can better connect with both the head and the heart during the teaching and learning process.

How are we to think of the disruptive or destructive child?

Drawing on over 25 years of experience working with children with challenging behaviour, Peter Nelmes argues that such children are members of a community who are possibly the least understood and accepted in society and whose problems are often met with condemnation rather than understanding and support.

Through his insightful explanation of this phenomenon, Peter gives anyone who works with such children a framework for understanding how the heart and the mind relate to each other in practice.

Writing with warmth and compassion, he shares a range of real-life case studies which illustrate how emotional difficulties can often diminish a child's capacity for learning and delivers key lessons on the importance of nurturing pupils self-regulation and providing them with supportive interventions.

'Troubled Hearts, Troubled Minds' is divided into two parts: the first comprising lessons from practice and the second looking towards a coherent theory that can then inform practice.

Part I begins by exploring the emotional background of teaching and learning, and the following three chapters enquire into the three components of shared meanings in the classroom: the teacher, the context and the learner. The final chapter in this section turns the focus onto what it means to attune to the emotional dimension of classroom interactions, putting greater emphasis on the lessons for practice.

In Part II, Peter explores the best modes of talk to use when teaching troubled children and presents a way of conceptualising all that has been described in the book into a simple theoretical model which educators can relate to and apply in their own setting.

If you have ever struggled to teach or even just connect with a troubled child, then this book is for you.

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From the Inside Flap

"Offers a detailed insight into how children's emotions affect their learning "€" and delivers key lessons on how we can better connect with both the head and the heart during the teaching and learning process.

How are we to think of the disruptive or destructive child? Drawing on over 25 years of working with children with challenging behavior, Peter Nelmes argues that such children are members of a community who are possibly the least recognized, understood and accepted in society "€" whose problems are often met with condemnation rather than understanding and support.

Drawing on a diverse range of case studies, he sets out to answer the question as to why emotional difficulties "€" grief, trauma and abuse "€" very often diminish a child's capacity for learning. By explaining this phenomenon he gives anyone who works with such children a framework for understanding how emotions play out in the classroom and a way of thinking about how the heart and the brain relate to each other in practice.

If you have ever struggled to teach "€" or even just connect with "€" a troubled child, then this book is for you."

About the Author

Peter Nelmes has worked with children with challenging lives and challenging behaviour since 1990. As part of his endeavours to make sense of his professional world, he gained a doctorate in education the subject of which was the role of the emotions in teaching and learning. He has taught and researched in a variety of settings, and has also been an associate lecturer for the Open University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Crown House Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 178583410X
• ISBN 13: 9781785834103
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 176