One of my graduate students is writing his dissertation on his teaching
at a community college--his name is Kamau Njroge, and he's writing about
his own (Freire-inspired) writing class--he certainly tries to make it
user friendly, and his students are older community college students. From
your message, it sounded like you were more interested in programs, but if you
are interested, I can pass along his address.
Tim Lensmire
On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Pete Farruggio wrote:
> Dear xmca'ers
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> Anybody interested in developmentalism at the community college?
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> I'm doing research on developing bilingual classroom teacher aides into
> teachers. I'd like info on pedagogy reform at the CC's to make basic
> courses more "user friendly" for novice college students who are older,
> have families and jobs, and weak study skills and not much time to study.
> Also these people need special counseling and academic advising.
>
> So far I've stumbled across the Bridge program at a local community
> college...but it's for high school dropouts, who are at a lower level than
> my target populatioon.
>
> Does anybody know of any "academy type" programs anywhere that could serve
> as a model? Is anybody else interested in this?
>
> Pete Farruggio
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