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Bannister, Nicole A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation seeks to understand how teachers learn through interactions in newly formed workplace communities by examining how mathematics teachers engaged in equity-oriented reforms frame problems of practice. It examines how teachers' framings develop over time, and how teachers' shifting frames connect to their learning in a community of…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Student Problems, High School Students, Ethnography
Brown, Peggy, Ed. – Forum for Liberal Education, 1981
An article and descriptions of programs for first-year college students are presented. In "As Freshmen First," John Orr Dwyer recounts the history of the word "freshman" and outlines some of the characteristics of the 1980s first-year student. Recognizing the problems that face students entering college for the first time, he…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Freshmen, College Programs, Higher Education