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"I Love Learning ; I Hate School" : an Anthropology of College.
Frustrated by her students' performance, her relationships with them, and her own daughter's problems in school, Susan D. Blum, a professor of anthropology, set out to understand why her students found their educational experience at a top-tier institution so profoundly difficult and unsat...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2016.
©2016 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "I Love Learning; I Hate School": An Anthropology of College; Contents; Introduction: What the Good Student Did Not Know; Part I. Trouble in Paradise; 1. Complaints: Crisis or Moral Panic?; 2. The Myriad and Muddied Goals of College; Part II. Schooling and Its Oddities; 3. Seeing the Air: The Nature and Spread of Higher Education; 4. Wagging the Dog: Learning for Schooling; 5. "What Do I Have to Do to Get an A?": The Real Skinny on Grades; 6. Campus Delights: Nonacademic Engagement and Responsibility; Part III. How and Why Humans Learn: Explaining the Mismatch.
- 7. Beyond Cognition and Abstraction: Notes on Human Nature and Development8. Learning in the Wild, Learning in the Cage; 9. Motivation Comes in at Least Two Flavors, Intrinsic and Extrinsic; 10. On Happiness, Flourishing, Well-Being, and Meaning; Part IV. A Revolution in Learning; 11. Both Sides Now of a Learning Revolution; Conclusion: Learning versus Schooling: A Professor's Reeducation; Appendix: A New Metaphor: Permaculture, or Twelve Principles of Human Cultivation; Acknowledgments; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author.