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Gorlewski, Julie – English Journal, 2011
The word "data" connotes math, science, and technology: digits and quantifiable units. Data imply objectification--reducing ideas, and perhaps even students and teachers, to products that can be measured and compared. Ironically, however, this conception of data is itself reductive, and it minimizes the richness and potential of data.…
Descriptors: School Statistics, Data, Information Processing, Teaching (Occupation)
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Daniels, Erika – English Journal, 2010
The author began her career teaching kindergarten. All 38 of her students showed up to school excited to be there and eager to learn. When she moved to the middle school, it was an entirely different story. She was stunned when most of her students didn't care whether or not they were successful academically. She encountered the same attitudes…
Descriptors: Researchers, English Instruction, Learning Motivation, Student Motivation