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Teaching Struggling Students

Lessons Learned from Both Sides of the Classroom

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Authors:
  1. Laura M. Harrison

    1. Ohio University, Athens, USA

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  • Offers a personal, accessible, and digestible account of the struggles students face in public universities today
  • Presents a road map for faculty to help created more informed strategies for reaching students
  • Fills a gap in the literature by utilizing a unique autoethnographic approach to exploring the challenges behind teaching and learning in higher education

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Laura M. Harrison
    Pages 1-9

  3. Privilege as a Blind Spot to Understanding Struggle

    • Laura M. Harrison
    Pages 11-32

  4. What Struggle Feels Like

    • Laura M. Harrison
    Pages 33-53

  5. Success Through Connection

    • Laura M. Harrison
    Pages 55-76

  6. Floundering Online

    • Laura M. Harrison
    Pages 77-96

  7. Making College Better

    • Laura M. Harrison
    Pages 97-118

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 119-121
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About this book

This book tackles the phenomenon of limited learning on campuses by approaching it from the point of view of the author, an educator who writes about the experience of being, simultaneously, a college student and a college professor. The author lays out her experience as a student struggling in an introductory linguistics class, framing her struggles as sites ripe for autoethnographic interrogation. Throughout the book, the author melds her personal narratives with the extant research on college student learning, college readiness, and the interconnectedness of affect, intellect, and socio-cultural contexts. This book poses a challenge to the current binary metanarrative that circles the college student learning conundrum, which highlights either the faculty or student perspective, and unfolds this unnecessary binary into a rich, nuanced, and polyvocal set of perspectives.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Ohio University, Athens, USA

    Laura M. Harrison

About the author

Laura M. Harrison is Associate Professor in the Higher Education and Student Affairs Program at Ohio University, USA. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Teaching Struggling Students

  • Book Subtitle: Lessons Learned from Both Sides of the Classroom

  • Authors: Laura M. Harrison

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13012-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13011-4Published: 27 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13012-1Published: 20 March 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 121

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Higher Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Learning & Instruction, Study and Learning Skills

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