College Students with Learning Disabilities (SWLD) and Their Responses to Teacher Power

Autor: David W. Worley, Myrna M. Cornett-Devito
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Communication Studies. 58:17-33
ISSN: 1745-1035
1051-0974
DOI: 10.1080/10510970601168665
Popis: The negotiation of classroom power continues to engage scholars given its considerable impact upon pedagogical practice in the college/university classroom. As Sprague (1994) points out, the issues surrounding classroom power are complex and important because they impact the life of the classroom for both students and teachers. The complexity and importance of this topic become even more profound when we include additional variables such as learning disabilities. Prior research has focused on how students with learning disabilities (SWLD) perceive competent and incompetent communication (see Cornett-DeVito & Worley, 2005); these perceptions are likely, in large part, related to how teachers of SWLD negotiate power. While extant literature reports many challenges in communication between college instructors and students (see Worley, 2000), and while persons with disabilities have been traditionally perceived as citizens with less power and in need of protection, research has yet to consider the specific is...
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