Part1: Plasticity as a Materialist Account of Becoming
1. Modern Neuroscience and Composition Studies
2. Engaging Student Self before Unraveling Identity
3. Emotion, Motivation, and Meaning: Decision-Making and Creative Risk
Part2: The Biological Emergence of Self through Emotional Value
4. Self as Metaphor and Neurobiological Emergence
5. Brain as Apparatus and Sensational Ontology
6. Diffraction of Neuroscience, Agential Realism, and Composition
7. Situated Cognition and Growth Mindset: The Insular Cortex and EBO
Part3: The Sedimented History of Emerging Selves: Molecular Structures of Learning and Memory
8. Memory as Emotional Encoding
9. Microfeatures, Automaticity, and Procedural Memory: Building Creative Power
10. Memory, Learning, and Transfer in Composition
11. Utilizing Plasticity to Modify Affect in Memory
Part4: Wanting, Liking, and Meaning: Intrinsic Motivation and Eudaemonic Reward
12. Eudaemonic Meaning: How Motivation Impacts Experience
13. Motivating Instructors: Finding Value through Student-Centered Emergence
14. Diffractive Motivation and Increase of Transfer
15. Discovery Learning: Expansion of Self through Environment Conclusion: Pedagogical Recommendations Appendix A. Operational Definitions Appendix B. Neurobiological Correlates of Concepts