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Inside Teaching: How Classroom Life Undermines Reform, Mary Kennedy, pg 29, The Gap between Reform Ideals and Everyday Teaching

The most important finding revealed in this chapter is that intellectual engagement can significantly add to teachers' difficulties, and that as a result teachers frequently discourage intellectual engage-ment. Just as students who are disengaged can disrupt lessons by misbehaving, so can students who are engaged disrupt a lesson by enthusiastically offering ideas that move the lesson away from the direction teachers are aiming for. Student enthusiasm can substantially complicate classroom discussions about content.

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