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Dahlman, Jill – ProQuest LLC, 2010
For many students the first-year composition (FYC) classroom marks the beginning of college. The FYC instructor acts as a leader and a mentor for each student who is unique and approaches learning differently. The question is whether students enter the classroom prepared for the challenge of academic writing with a high sense of self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Freshman Composition, Self Efficacy, Federal Legislation
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Eastman, Nate – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2006
In this article, the author discusses various conceptions about the teacher's body. He states that the teacher's body is not just a pile of organs and meat in a skin corset. As part of the performance metaphor--commonly read as part of education-as-spectacle--it translates institutional systems and institutional ideas into a social order, and at…
Descriptors: Social Control, Nonverbal Learning, Teacher Characteristics, Parent Participation