Misaligned Minds

Name: Misaligned Minds
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing (AUS)
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How Cultural Differences Complicate Teaching

By: Cornelius N. Grove

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Hardcover | 21 January 2027

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Misaligned Minds is a research-based book in the ethnology of education that examines what happens when teachers and students enter the classroom with fundamentally different expectations about learning, knowledge, and authority. Drawing on global anthropological research and seventy-six true classroom stories from published sources, the book explores how cultural patterns—particularly individualistic and communitarian values, knowledge-focused and learner-focused pedagogies, and analytic and holistic ways of thinking—can create "misaligned minds" that complicate teaching and learning. Written directly to U.S.-based educators, professors, and corporate trainers, it combines seven analytic chapters with four story-rich chapters to deepen understanding while offering practical strategies for transmitting knowledge more effectively to learners from diverse cultural, national, and community backgrounds. Moving beyond the typical focus of multicultural education, Misaligned Minds concentrates on the "hands" of teaching—equipping educators not just to value diversity, but to skillfully navigate the real interpersonal and pedagogical challenges that arise when culturally different students actually show up in their classrooms.

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