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

by Bell, Inge; McGrane, Bernard; Gunderson, John

• ISBN13: 9781412910118
• ISBN10: 1412910110
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-09
• Publisher: Pine Forge Press

Summary

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 McGrane, 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.

Table of Contents

Preface to the First Edition	vii
Preface to the Second Edition	ix
Preface to the Third Edition	xi
Welcome to College	1	(38)
Grades: Can You Perform Without the Pressure?	39	(20)
Support Your Local Teacher: Or the Care and Feeding of Professors	59	(14)
An Academic Question	73	(10)
Questions of Academic Integrity	83	(8)
Everybody Hates to Write	91	(12)
Wisdom and Knowledge	103	(12)
Pursuing Wisdom in the Academy	115	(14)
Adventures in Desocialization	129	(16)
Media Me	145	(8)
Love	153	(26)
Trouble With Parents	179	(18)
The Painful Avenues of Upward Mobility	197	(14)
Graduation---What They Forgot to Mention	211	(12)
The Career: Friend or Foe?	223	(12)
Directing Your Own Development	235	(8)
Appendix 1. For Teachers and Students Using This Book	243	(4)
Appendix 2. Buddhist Sociology	247	(12)
References	259	(2)
Index	261	(8)
About the Author and Contributors	269