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ERIC Number: EJ484275
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1992
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4871
Teacher Distance and Student Disengagement: School Lives on the Margin.
Schlosser, Linda Kramer
Journal of Teacher Education, v43 n2 p128-40 Mar-Apr 1992
The school lives of culturally diverse young adolescents identified as potential dropouts were studied ethnographically. Data collected across two years indicated that teachers who students considered most successful in helping them learn used practices based on knowledge about students' home cultures and knowledge about the impact of students' developmental needs on learning. (SM)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Asian Americans, Blacks, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Ethnography, Hispanic Americans, Intermediate Grades, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Whites
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Diversity (Student); Marginal Students; Teacher Knowledge
Note: Theme issue topic: "Cultural Diversity in Education."