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Panayotova, Dora Marinova – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation reports on a study investigating the identity of first-year university students as writers. The longitudinal project explored how students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds construct their identities as undergraduates and as academic writers in their first year. The research was qualitative and interpretative, and used…
Descriptors: Self Concept, College Freshmen, Interviews, Student Attitudes
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Dundes, Lauren; Harlow, Roxanna – Teaching Sociology, 2005
A simulation called "Star Power" provides an invaluable means to help students understand structural social inequality. This paper explains how Star Power achieves this goal and provides suggestions on how to inculcate the following points that are both central to sociology and difficult to adequately convey to students: 1) Students see how those…
Descriptors: Social Class, Conflict, Advantaged, Whites