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Fostering Habits of Mind in Today's Students: A New Approach to Developmental Education
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jennifer Fletcher, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Developmental studies programs.
- College teaching.
- Remedial teaching.
- Education, Higher.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), 2015.
- Summary:
- Based on a multi-campus, cross-disciplinary collaboration, this book presents a set of habits-of-mind-based strategies that demonstrably help not only low-income, ESL, and first-generation college students overcome obstacles on the path to degree completion, but all students. They promote life-long, integrative learning and foster intellectual qualities such as curiosity, openness, flexibility, engagement, and persistence.
- Contents:
- Discovering assets
- Creating communities
- Engaging learners
- Building confidence
- Developing students' self-efficacy
- Promoting transfer of learning.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-00-344486-5
- 1-000-97218-6
- 1-003-44486-5
- 9781003444862
- OCLC:
- 1390712827
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