This Book Is Not Required

Fourth Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-4129-8038-8
Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

The Fourth Edition of the classic This Book is Not Required: A Success Manual for First-Year Students breaks new ground in participatory education, offering insight and inspiration to help undergraduates make the most of their university years. This edition continues to teach about the university experience as a whole—looking at the personal, social, intellectual, and spiritual demands and opportunities—while incorporating new material highly relevant to today's students. The material is presented in a personable and straightforward manner, maintaining Dr. Inge Bell's illuminating writing style throughout, and inviting students to take responsibility for, and make the most of, their educational experiences.

New to This Edition:

- Features two new chapters, "Technology" (Chapter 3) and "Survival Skills" (Chapter 12), as well as new material on academic integrity, including the increased prevalence of cheating through the Internet.

Key Features:

- Offers real-life student vignettes that address current issues facing university students

- Encourages a participatory university education and personal reflection for students in many different disciplines

- Includes three bonus appendices: "For Teachers and Students Using this Book"; "A Primer on 'Buddhist Sociology' Pioneered by Inge Bell"; and "Short Biographies of the 'Team Bell' Members".

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bell, Inge

McGrane, Bernard D.

Gunderson, John A.

Anderson, Terri Lynne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Berufs- und Studienberatung, Karriereplanung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Part I. Academics and Learning
Chapter 1 - Welcome to College
Chapter 2 - Grades: Can You Perform Without the Pressure?
Chapter 3 - Technology and Learning
Chapter 4 - Everybody Hates to Write
Part II. Navigating the Institution
Chapter 5 - Support Your Local Teacher: Or the Care and Feeding of Professors
Chapter 6 - An Academic Question
Chapter 7 - Questions of Academic Integrity
Chapter 8 - Wisdom and Knowledge
Chapter 9 - Pursuing Wisdom in the Academy
Chapter 10 - Adventures in Desocialization
Chapter 11 - Media Me
Part III. Survival Strategies
Chapter 12 - Survival Skills
Chapter 13 - Love
Chapter 14 - Trouble With Parents
Chapter 15 - The Painful Avenues of Upward Mobility Test
Chapter 16 - Graduation: What They Forgot to Mention
Chapter 17 - The Career: Friend or Foe?
Chapter 18 - Directing Your Own Development
Appendix: For Teachers and Students Using This Book
References
Index
About the Authors
About the Contributors: Team Bell

Über Autor(innen)

Bell, Inge
Inge Bell (1930-1996) received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She helped organize the Berkeley/Oakland chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.), an experience that led to the publication of her first book, C.O.R.E.: The Strategy of Non-Violence. She taught sociology at Pitzer College until 1982, and wrote the first edition of This Book Is Not Required in 1985.

McGrane, Bernard D.
Bernard McGrane received his Ph.D. from New York University and taught at Vermont College, Colby College, Cuesta Community College, UCLA, Pitzer College, and the University of California, Irvine before accepting his current position at Chapman University. He is the author of Beyond Anthropology, Society and the Other, and The Un-TV and the 10 MPH Car—Experiments in Personal Freedom and Everyday Life.

Gunderson, John A.
John Gunderson received his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University in 2003. John’s work is focused on the belief in the power of passionate teaching, awareness and learning and its ability to transform education and people’s lives. To this end, he has been actively publishing scholarly work and presenting at conferences such as AERA and AME. His published works have been about diverse topics from teaching and learning, school reform, college life and the media.