A Question of Perspective : Toward a More Complex View of Classrooms. ERIC/CUE Urban Diversity Series, Number 58 / Sara Lawrence Lightfoot.

A review of selected literature on classroom processes indicates that the primary preoccupation of educational researchers is with the dominance and centrality of the teacher. The research has primarily been concerned with documenting the strong relationship between the teacher's expectations of a p...

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Main Author: Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara, 1944-
Corporate Author: ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1978.
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Physical Description:14 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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