The College Fear Factor : : How Students and Professors Misunderstand One Another /

The College Fear Factor : : How Students and Professors Misunderstand One Another / / Rebecca D. Cox.

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Rebecca D. Cox draws on five years of interviews and observations at community colleges, where she shows how students and their instructors misunderstand and ultimately fail one another, despite good intentions. Eye-opening even for experienced faculty and administrators, The College Fear Factor rev...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Cox, Rebecca D.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]
©2011
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Today's College Students
  • Part 1. Students
  • Chapter 2. The Student Fear Factor
  • Chapter 3. Student Aspirations
  • Chapter 4. "How is that Helping Us ?"
  • Part 2. Classroom Dynamics
  • Chapter 5. College Teaching
  • Chapter 6. Professors Who "Come Down to Our Level"
  • Part 3. Gatekeeping
  • Chapter 7. Academic Literacies
  • Chapter 8. Reimagining College from the Inside Out
  • Appendix: The Research Studies
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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