Creating a Connected Classroom
Engaging Community College Students with Multimodal Texts
Published on 12. September 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-3-659-24191-8 (ISBN)
Description
Community college students' varying experiences in the composition classroom allow multi-modal texts to bridge between new concepts and familiar texts, creating student engagement and agency in the composition classroom. By exploring the general characteristics that many community college students and community college campuses share, it is possible to gain a better understanding of how connecting campuses and pedagogies to students' daily lives can create a deeper sense of agency in the composition classroom
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
447 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-659-24191-8 (9783659241918)
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Nicole Lask Aitken has been working with developmental students in community college settings since 2001 and continues her work at Illinois Central College as a Professor of Developmental Education. She earned her PhD in English Studies from Illinois State University in 2008.