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The college fear factor : how students and professors misunderstand one another /

From the Publisher: They're not the students strolling across the bucolic liberal arts campuses where their grandfathers played football. They are first-generation college students-children of immigrants and blue-collar workers-who know that their hopes for success hinge on a degree. But colleg...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cox, Rebecca D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1: Today's college students
  • Part 1: Students
  • 2: Student fear factor
  • 3: Student aspirations: getting the biggest bang for the buck
  • 4: How is that helping us?
  • Part 2: Classroom Dynamics
  • 5: College teaching
  • 6: Professors who "come down to our level"
  • Part 3: Gatekeeping
  • 7: Academic literacies
  • 8: Reimagining college from the inside out
  • Appendix: Research studies
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.