On the nature of student defensiveness: Theory and feedback from a software design course

ICER'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Workshop on International Computing Education Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 81-91

  Schwartzman, Leslie ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Confusion; Defensiveness; Fixed unknowing; Phenomenology; Reflectiveness; Rupture in knowing; Transformative learning; Will to authenticity

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; STUDENT LEARNING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; REFINING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 70449731060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1584322.1584333     Document Type: Conference Paper

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