TY - JOUR
T1 - Students as consumers of critical thinking in the community college classroom
AU - Jensen, Jane Mc Eldowney
AU - Worth, Benjamin
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This ethnographic study examines the negotiation of the value of critical thinking by a group of community college students and their instructor in a required general education literature course. Using a sociological analysis, the authors explore how the students situated themselves as both learners and consumers in the classroom, a social field that contrasts marketplace realities and academic expectations.
AB - This ethnographic study examines the negotiation of the value of critical thinking by a group of community college students and their instructor in a required general education literature course. Using a sociological analysis, the authors explore how the students situated themselves as both learners and consumers in the classroom, a social field that contrasts marketplace realities and academic expectations.
KW - Community college
KW - Critical thinking
KW - English literature
KW - General education
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U2 - 10.1353/jge.2014.0025
DO - 10.1353/jge.2014.0025
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84919789555
SN - 0021-3667
VL - 63
SP - 287
EP - 308
JO - Journal of General Education
JF - Journal of General Education
IS - 4
ER -