This Book Is Not Required - Bell, Inge

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Résumé :
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 authors' 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.

New to this edition:

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

Encourages a participatory college 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

Biographie:
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.

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

This book SHOULD be required. [The authors] have created a lively, insightful, and tangible source that students can utilize in the classroom and in life. They want to read the book because it speaks to them, and it provides me with a classroom full of hungry, alert minds.