Inoculation in Education, Instruction, and Training Contexts

This chapter establishes inoculation's value within education, instruction, and training contexts by: (1) considering the theory's basic tenets and explaining how they help it function as a learning strategy; (2) reviewing inoculation research on people's attitudes and beliefs about education (i.e., mandatory on-campus residency policies, eliminating student draft deferment requirements, intrinsic value of education, strict university admissions policies, cross-sex dorm visitation policies, on-campus parking restrictions, verbal aggression in schools, mandatory college exit exams, supplemental textbook adoption, and plagiarism); (3) examining inoculation research on people's attitudes and beliefs about classroom instruction (i.e., digital learning projects, self-determined motivation, public speaking anxiety, meta-literacy, and game-based learning), (4) describing a few training programs (re)designed using inoculation principles and for learners outside the traditional classroom context (i.e., coal miners, preservice teachers, military members); and (5) identifying multiple knowledge claims, implications, and directions for future research.