ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an analysis of some of the most common forms of biases and obstacles that prevent students, faculty, and administrators from recognizing resistance and explains the urgent need to change this situation. Instructors are enabled to see student resistance in its complexity through the lens of the IMSR and to work on promoting constructive strategies for dealing with these learning obstacles. Understanding some common biases and expectations that lead faculty and students to become frustrated and that enable a quick jump to blaming the other side for the problem, increasing student resistance to learning. Common obstacles to power sharing with students have been described in detail by Tolman and Lee, who also suggested other potential remedies for faculty to consider. These obstacles serve to make it easier for both instructors and students to blame each other and to avoid taking responsibility for their own part in student resistance to learning.
