I Love Learning; I Hate School: An Anthropology of College

by Susan D. Blum

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501700219
• ISBN13: 9781501700217
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher