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Overview"In Schoolishness, Susan D. Blum continues her journey as an anthropologist and educator. The author defines ""schoolishness"" as educational practices that emphasize packaged ""learning,"" unimaginative teaching, uniformity, constant evaluation by others, arbitrary forms, predetermined time, and artificial boundaries, resulting in personal and educational alienation, dependence, and dread. Drawing on critical, progressive, and feminist pedagogy in conversation with the anthropology of learning, and building on the insights of her two previous books Blum proposes less-schoolish ways of learning in ten dimensions, to lessen the mismatch between learning in school and learning in the wild. She asks, if learning is our human ""superpower,"" why is it so difficult to accomplish in school? In every chapter Blum compares the fake learning of schoolishness with successful examples of authentic learning, including in her own courses, which she scrutinizes critically. Schoolishness is not a pedagogical how-to book, but a theory-based phenomenology of institutional education. It has moral, psychological, and educational arguments against schoolishness that, as Blum notes, ""rhymes with foolishness.""" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Susan D. BlumPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9781501774744ISBN 10: 1501774743 Pages: 426 Publication Date: 29 April 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationSusan D. Blum is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of I Love Learning; I Hate School, and My Word!, as well as the editor of Ungrading. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |