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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"student resistance"”.
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The Unbelievable Truth and the Dilemmas of Ignorance: Rethinking Student Resistance in Social Justice Education
… concepts of social justice educational theory---resistance, privilege, and ignorance---are insufficiently complex and draw on psychoanalytic and anticolonial theory to show how more dynamic conceptions of each can help to alleviate much of the anger, frustration, and resentment that circulates in …
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Why Blame Me? Interpreting Counselor Student Resistance to Racially Themed Course Content as Complicity with White Racial Hegemony
Counselor educators commonly experience resistance from students when the classroom focus turns to issues, literature, projects, or discussions involving race. Recognizing this resistance as an obstacle to learning, scholars developed strategies to address it. These strategies, however, have been …
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The path to free education: exploration of student revolts in South African Universities from an archival perspective
Forms of student resistance for social change have challenged and shaped the political customs of South Africa for decades. This was shown in the recent 2015/16 student uprisings in tertiary institutions that brought the public to a standstill and provided immediate debate on the future of …
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‘Is That Enough?’ An examination of the conceptual metaphors post-primary pre-service teachers use to make sense of collaborative learning
… this, it continues to encounter noticeable ‘student resistance’ and stunted rates of propagation. This investigation centres on the language-in-action of seven groups of Pre-Service Teachers from 2016 to 2019, as they engage in CL as part of their Initial Teacher Education. Adopting a duality …
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Teacher Perceptions of a Literacy Intervention Implementation in Middle School: A Case Study
… literacy intervention and evaluate its impact on students’ literacy achievement. The study was guided by the social learning theory, which posits that a literacy intervention program would enhance students’ literacy skills. The study findings indicated that the program improved students’ reading …
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Evolving Minds: Helping Students with Cognitive Dissonance
… teachers still find themselves dealing with student resistance to learning about biological evolution. Some teachers deal with this pressure by undermining, deemphasizing, or even omitting the topic in their science curriculum. Others face the challenge and deliver solid scientific …
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Exploring Classroom Collaborative Problem Solving: An Examination of the Pedagogical Role and Professional Learning of Mathematics Teachers
… such as the 2015 PISA highlighted U.S. students’ relatively strong performance in CPS, research has primarily focused on defining CPS frameworks and assessments rather than exploring how teachers actually use and learn this pedagogy in classrooms. This study focuses on how mathematics …
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Developing Mathematical Knowledge Through Class Discussion: One Teacher's Struggles in Implementing Reform
… issues: classroom challenges, perceptions of student resistance, and teacher authority. The findings of this study suggest that mathematics teachers, even those with extensive experience and grounded knowledge in current reform initiatives, will need to further develop strategies for …
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Thinking Globally, Writing Locally: Re-Visioning Critical And Service Learning Pedagogies With Globalization Theory
… under scrutiny on the grounds that it opposes students' pragmatic views and career concerns, effects student resistance in the classroom, devalues students' personal experiences, and stigmatizes white students (particularly white males). Within service learning, scholars point to numerous …
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Faculty Interests - Faculty Needs: Creating Meaningful Critical Thinking Training
<p>Helping students improve their critical thinking and writing abilities is a challenge for university instructors. Although they are experts in their specific disciplines, most of them struggle when it comes to developing appropriate and successful critical thinking activities for their students. …
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Be(coming) the Change You Want to See in the World: Social Justice Teacher Education as Affective Craft
… ‘equity experts’ yet recalling familiar forms of student resistance. In the second chapter, I investigate what happens at these thresholds where SJTE threatens to come apart. In the third chapter, I assemble an emergent theory of resistance that challenges prevailing conceptions of SJTE practice …
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More than race: Differentiating Black students’ everyday experiences in Texas school desegregation, 1968-1978
… schools in Waco, Texas, how did Black students’ social identities, namely race, gender, and socioeconomic status, differentiate their everyday experiences? This local social history examines this central question, using intersectionality as the theoretical lens and oral history …
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Teachers' Perception of the English Language Curriculum in Libyan Public Schools: An Investigation and Assessment of Implementation Process of English Curriculum in Libyan Public High Schools
… teaching CLT materials, insufficient funding, students' low English proficiency, teachers' lack of training in CLT, few opportunities for in-service training in CLT, large classes, lack of support from colleagues and administrators, a focus on rote memorization in teaching and learning, …
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The Case for a Pedagogy for the Oppressor: Race and Social Justice Education In the Context of Post-Apartheid South Africa.
… offer a unique opportunity to empower students to become engaged and contributing members of society. This research was inspired by my own experiences with engaging issues of social justice, race and whiteness. I began by asking, "What pedagogical approach is most likely to shift white …
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The teaching and learning of English at secondary school level in South Korea: The curriculum and its implementation
… the general direction of teaching reforms, and student resistance to communicatively-orientated teaching. The findings of this research project suggest that although these issues are very real ones, there are other issues which are of equal or greater significance but which have been the subject …
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Resistance On The Great Plains: The Bismarck Indian School, 1916-1921
… Archives, in Kansas City, Missouri, the story of resistance is the subject matter explored in this thesis. Laying out my work thematically rather than chronologically allowed me to tell a larger story of resistance at the school, particularly between the years of 196-1921. Through the primary …