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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 unsatisfying. Through her research and in conversations with her students, she discovered a troubling mismatch between the goals of the university and the needs of students. In "I Love Learning; I Hate School," Blum tells two intertwined but inseparable stories: the results of her research into how students learn contrasted with the way conventional education works, and the personal narrative of how she herself was transformed by this understanding. Blum concludes that the dominant forms of higher education do not match the myriad forms of learning that help students-people in general-master meaningful and worthwhile skills and knowledge. Students are capable of learning huge amounts, but the ways higher education is structured often leads them to fail to learn. More than that, it leads to ill effects. In this critique of higher education, infused with anthropological insights, Blum explains why so much is going wrong and offers suggestions for how to bring classroom learning more in line with appropriate forms of engagement. She challenges our system of education and argues for a "reintegration of learning with life."
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13 janvier 2016

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ILoveLearning;IHateSchool
ILoveLearning;I Hate School”
AnAnthropologyofCollege
SusanD.Blum
CornellUniversityPressIthacaandLondon
Copyright © 2016 by Cornell University
This book was made possible, in part, by support from the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame.
All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850.
First published 2016 by Cornell University Press
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataBlum, Susan Debra, author.  “I love learning; I hate school” : an anthropology of college / Susan D. Blum.  pages cm  Includes bibliographical references and index.  ISBN 978-1-5017-0021-7 (cloth : alk. paper)  1. Motivation in education—United States. 2. College students— United States—Attitudes. 3. Teacher-student relationships— United States. I. Title.  LB1065.B56 2016  370.154—dc23 2015030284
Cornell University Press strives to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the fullest extent possible in the publishing of its books. Such materials include vegetable-based, low-VOC inks and acid-free papers that are recycled, totally chlorine-free, or partly composed of nonwoodbers. For further information, visit our website at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu.
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Cover design and photography by Scott Levine. Class notes courtesy of Hannah Jensen. Special thanks to Emily Powers and Susan Specter.
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Longmaywegiggleplayworklearnworryeatrejoicetogether, in good health
Whenateachersloveoflearninghasbeenscornedshemaynd herself in despair. . . . Through exploring and understanding these teachers’ despair, along with their love of learning in teaching and its loss, we may come to see more clearly the possibilities entailed in a larger love.
DanielP.Liston,LoveandDespairinTeaching
Proliferationofversionsofatheoryisaveryusualsymptomofcrisis. . . . Scientic revolutions are . . . those non-cumulative devel-opmental episodes in which an older paradigm is replaced in whole or in part by an incompatible new one. ThomasS.Kuhn,The Structure of Scientic Revolutions
Thereareonlytwothingswrongwiththeeducationsystem1. What we teach 2. How we teach it. RogerSchank,onhiswebsite,RogerSchank.com
Contents
Introduction:WhattheGoodStudentDidNotKnow
PartI.TroubleinParadise1. Complaints: Crisis or Moral Panic?  2. The Myriad and Muddied Goals of College
PartII.SchoolingandItsOddities 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
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PartIII.HowandWhyHumansLearn:Explaining the Mismatch 7. Beyond Cognition and Abstraction: Notes on Human Nature and Development  8. Learning in the Wild, Learning in the Cage  9. Motivation Comes in at Least Two Flavors, Intrinsic and Extrinsic 10.OnHappiness,Flourishing,Well-Being,andMeaning
PartIV.ARevolutioninLearning
11.BothSidesNowofaLearningRevolution
Conclusion:LearningversusSchooling:AProfessorsReeducation
Appendix:ANewMetaphor:Permaculture,orTwelve Principles of Human Cultivation AcknowledgmentsNotes Works Cited Index About the Author
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