Includes bibliographical references and index.

Content: Defining and understanding student resistance -- Student voices -- Obstacles,biases, and the urgent need to understand the social cost of resistance -- The impact of institutional culture on student disengagement and resistance to learning -- Societal and environmental influences that shape student motivation -- Through the students' eyes:internalized forces that shape student motivation -- Negative classroom experiences -- Seeing the invisible:how cognitive and developmental influences shape student resistance -- How promoting student meta cognition can reduce resistance -- Creating a campus climate to reduce resistance.