This Book Is Not Required: An Emotional Survival Manual for Students / Edition 3

by Inge Bell, Bernard D. McGrane, John A. Gunderson, John Gunderson, Bernard McGrane

Overview

This Book Is Not Required: An Emotional Survival Manual for Students has been regarded as a powerful tool to introduce students to the sociological analysis and personal reflection of college life. Now in its Third Edition, the book continues to educate students on the college experience as a whole—looking at the personal, social, intellectual, and spiritual demands and opportunities presented by college life. In a personable and refreshingly straightforward style, authors Inge Bell, Bernard Mc Grane, and John Gunderson critically discuss how academic life distinguishes between learning the institutional rules of higher education and internalizing those rules. The book 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412910118
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/09/2004
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Bernard Mc Grane received his Ph.D. from New York University and taught at Vermont College, Colby College, Cuesta Community College, UCLA, Pitzer College, and the University of California, Irvine before accepting his current position at Chapman University. He is the author of Beyond Anthropology, Society and the Other, and The Un-TV and the 10 MPH Car—Experiments in Personal Freedom and Everyday Life.

John Gunderson received his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University in 2003. John’s work is focused on the belief in the power of passionate teaching, awareness and learning and its ability to transform education and people’s lives. To this end, he has been actively publishing scholarly work and presenting at conferences such as AERA and AME. His published works have been about diverse topics from teaching and learning, school reform, college life and the media.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
Chapter 1. Welcome to College
Chapter 2. Grades: Can You Perform Without the Pressure?
Chapter 3. Support Your Local Teacher: Or, The Care and Feeding of Professors
Chapter 4. An Academic Question
Chapter 5. Questions of Academic Integrity
Chapter 6. Everybody Hates to Write
Chapter 7. Wisdom and Knowledge
Chapter 8. Pursuing Wisdom in the Academy
Chapter 9. Adventures in Desocialization
Chapter 10. Media Me
Chapter 11. Love
Chapter 12. Trouble With Parents
Chapter 13. The Painful Avenues of Upward Mobility
Chapter 14. Graduation—What They Forgot to Mention
Chapter 15. The Career: Friend or Foe?
Chapter 16. Directing Your Own Development
Appendices
1. For Teachers and Students Using This Book
2. Buddhist Sociology
3. About the Author and Contributors
References
Index
Preface to the First Edition

Editorial Reviews

"This book SHOULD be required. Bell and Mc Grane have created a lively, insightful, and tangible source that the student can utilize in the classroom and in life. They want to read the book because it speaks to them and provides me a classroom full of hungry, alert minds. "

Melanie C. Klein