Author : David Scott Rembiesa
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (126 download)
Book Synopsis Community College Faculty Experiences with Dual-enrollment Students by : David Scott Rembiesa
Download or read book Community College Faculty Experiences with Dual-enrollment Students written by David Scott Rembiesa and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This basic interpretive qualitative study examines the ways in which experienced community college faculty from different disciplines view their pedagogical perspectives after having worked with an increasing number of nontraditional students in their mixed-age college classrooms. Using a semi-structured question technique guided by Robertson's (1999) professor-as-teacher developmental model, the researcher interviewed 20 faculty from a single, associates-degree-granting institution in Michigan. The participants in this study represented 18 different disciplines and all had at least 8 years of teaching experience at the community-college level. During this 8-year period, community college enrollment in Michigan shifted drastically from adult, nontraditional students looking for new career options in the wake of The Great Recession to an enrollment that actively pursues adolescent, dual-enrollment students looking to decrease future higher education costs. After analyzing the codes and themes in the data, this study concluded community college faculty in aliocentric (learner-centered) or systemocentric (teacher/learner-centered) teaching positions, as defined by Robertson (1999), are well suited for teaching dual-enrollment students. This suitability was found to be the case, regardless of discipline or employment status. However, despite this disposition, faculty were worried about the amount of dual enrollment expansion happening in their classrooms. The practical implications of this study are relevant to any teaching and learning initiative focused on strengthening community college faculty's abilities to work with adolescent, dual-enrollment learners.