Beschreibung:
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.
Introduction: What the Good Student Did Not Know Part I. Trouble in Paradise 1. Complaints: Crisis or Moral Panic? 2. The Myriad and Muddied Goals of College Part II. Schooling and Its Oddities 3. Seeing the Air: The Nature and Spread of Higher Education 4. Wagging the Dog: Learning for Schooling 5. "What Do I Have to Do to Get an A?": The Real Skinny on Grades 6. Campus Delights: Nonacademic Engagement and Responsibility