"I love learning ; I hate school" : an anthropology of college, Susan D. Blum

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The instance "I love learning ; I hate school" : an anthropology of college, Susan D. Blum represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.

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"I love learning ; I hate school" : an anthropology of college, Susan D. Blum

Title remainder

an anthropology of college

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Susan D. Blum

Instantiates

• "I love learning ; I hate school" : an anthropology of college

Publication

• Ithaca | London, Cornell University Press, 2016

Copyright

• ©2016

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-334) and index

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Contents

Why don't students care about learning in college? -- What the good student did not know -- The book this is and isn't: disclaimers -- Problems/Trouble in Paradise/Challenges to Normal Science -- Complaints: crisis or moral panic? -- The myriad and muddied goals of college -- Schooling and its oddities -- Seeing the air: the nature and spread of higher education: the paradigm -- Wagging the dog: learning for schooling -- "What do I have to do to get an A?": the real skinny on grades -- Campus delights: a little study of nonacademic engagement and responsibility -- Explaining the mismatch: how and why humans learn -- Beyond cognition and abstraction: humans are immature capable curious emotional social animals: notes on human nature and development -- Learning in the wild, learning in the cage -- Motivation comes in at least two flavors -- On happiness, flourishing, wellbeing, and meaning -- A learning revolution -- Both sides now of a learning revolution -- Conclusion: learning versus schooling: a professor's reeducation -- Appendix: a new metaphor: permaculture; twelve principles of human cultivation

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ocn916685054

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24 cm

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viii, 344 pages

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9781501700217

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2015030284

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illustrations

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u226430

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(OCoLC)916685054