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"I Love Learning; I Hate School": An Anthropology of College (FBG)
Faculty Book Group | Spring 2019 | Meeting 3
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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 university and the needs of students.
Blum tells two intertwined but inseparable stories: the results of her research into how