Teaching Struggling Students
Lessons Learned from Both Sides of the Classroom
1st Edition
Published on 20. March 2019
IX, 121 pages
978-3-030-13012-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book tackles the phenomenon of limited learning on campuses by approaching it from the point of view of the author, an educator who writes about the experience of being, simultaneously, a college student and a college professor. The author lays out her experience as a student struggling in an introductory linguistics class, framing her struggles as sites ripe for autoethnographic interrogation. Throughout the book, the author melds her personal narratives with the extant research on college student learning, college readiness, and the interconnectedness of affect, intellect, and socio-cultural contexts. This book poses a challenge to the current binary metanarrative that circles the college student learning conundrum, which highlights either the faculty or student perspective, and unfolds this unnecessary binary into a rich, nuanced, and polyvocal set of perspectives.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
IX, 121 p. 2 illus.
File size
1,59 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-030-13012-1 (9783030130121)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-13012-1
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
03/2019
Palgrave Pivot
€53.49
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Person
Laura M. Harrison
is Associate Professor in the Higher Education and Student Affairs Program at Ohio University, USA.
Content
1. Introduction.- 2. Privilege as a Blindspot to Understanding Struggle.- 3. What Struggle Feels Like.- 4. Success through Connection.- 5. Floundering Online.- 6. Making College Better.-
