Teachers' Perceptions of Students: A Link Between Classrooms, School Cultures, and the Social Order.

Page, Reba

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Publication Date: 1987

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Teachers' Perceptions of Students: A Link Between Classrooms, School Cultures, and the Social Order.

Page, Reba

Anthropology and Education Quarterly, v18 n2 p77-99 Jun 1987

A mechanism which differentiates lower track and regular track curriculum is the teachers' perceptions of the tracked students. This subjective method of defining the what and how of learning is a somewhat autonomous sociocultural, political process which is capable of altering general perceptions of social differentiation. (VM)

Descriptors: Access to Education, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged, Educational Discrimination, Expectation, Secondary Education, Secondary School Curriculum, Secondary School Teachers, Social Bias, Social Cognition, Social Differences, Teacher Attitudes, Track System (Education)

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