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This book is [not] required : an emotional and intellectual survival manual for students / Inge Bell, Bernard McGrane, Chapman University, John Gunderson, Chapman University, Terri L. Anderson, University of California, Los Angeles.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: Computer fileComputer fileLanguage: English Publication details: Los Angeles, California : SAGE, [2014];?2014Edition: 5th EditionDescription: 1 online resource (332 pages)ISBN:
  • 9781544308593
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.198
Online resources: Summary: This edition of an underground classic marks out new territory in college participatory education. Its purpose remains the same: to encourage students to educate themselves by calling their attention to the college experience as a whole: the personal, social, intellectual, and spiritual demands and opportunities presented by college life. In a personable and refreshingly straightforward style, the auhtors' critical discussion of academic life distinguishes between learning the institutional rules of higher education and internalizing those rules, demystifies professors and teaching assistants by discussing their institutional roles and incentives, and invites students to take responsibility for - and make the most of - their educational experiences.
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This edition of an underground classic marks out new territory in college participatory education. Its purpose remains the same: to encourage students to educate themselves by calling their attention to the college experience as a whole: the personal, social, intellectual, and spiritual demands and opportunities presented by college life. In a personable and refreshingly straightforward style, the auhtors' critical discussion of academic life distinguishes between learning the institutional rules of higher education and internalizing those rules, demystifies professors and teaching assistants by discussing their institutional roles and incentives, and invites students to take responsibility for - and make the most of - their educational experiences.

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