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Wolfe, Rebecca E., Ed.; Steinberg, Adria, Ed.; Hoffman, Nancy, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2013
"Anytime, Anywhere" synthesizes existing research and practices in the emerging field of student-centered learning, and includes profiles of schools that have embraced this approach. Educators have argued that students should be at the center of learning, constructing new knowledge based on what is interesting to them, and receiving…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Teaching Methods, Educational Research, Institutional Characteristics
Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M. – 1989
This ethnographic study documents and interprets key school, work, and family life issues in the lives and experiences of a sampling of recent immigrants from the war-torn Central American nations; and suggests a psychocultural theory of achievement motivation. Information was gathered from observation in two urban high schools, interviews with 50…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Adjustment (to Environment), Aspiration, Attitude Measures