Changing Attitudes : A Strategy for Motivating Students to Learn

Vincent Ruggiero, nationally-known for his work on critical thinking, now tackles the difficult area of attitude change.

Ruggiero's premise is that the main cause of many students' indisposition to learn is their attitudes.

Changing Attitudes is intended to help teachers understand and appraise the negative attitudes that are all too common today, and identify positive alternative attitudes.

Changing Attitudes is available both on its own as well as with two versions of a student workbook entitled, Thinking Critically About Attitudes (middle/secondary version due Summer, 1998; elementary version due Fall, 1998).