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"I Love Learning; I Hate School": An Anthropology of College (FBG)

Faculty Book Group | Spring 2019 | Meeting 1

Mar 18, 2019 [ADD TO YOUR CALENDAR]
1:00pm-2:00pm
348, James E. Walker Library (LIB)
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* NOTE: The book group has reached maximum capacity. Please email Sheila Otto if you wish to be placed on the waiting list. *

You are invited to join a group of colleagues who will be reading and discussing the book "I Love Learning; I Hate School": An Anthropology of College, by Susan D. Blum.  

The publisher’s website describes the book as follows: 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 univer