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ERIC Number: EJ571394
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0017-8055
Teacher as Rain Dancer. Voices Inside Schools.
Hole, Simon
Harvard Educational Review, v68 n3 p413-21 Fall 1998
Uses the metaphor of teacher as rain dancer to explore a teacher's dilemma when democratic class practices clash with individual student needs. Raises the question of whose needs and whose agenda prevail in the classroom. (SK)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Democracy, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Needs, Metaphors, Personal Narratives, Student Needs, Teachers
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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