{"product_id":"schoolishness-susan-d-blum-9781501774744","title":"Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Schoolishness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Susan D. Blum continues her journey as an anthropologist and educator.\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchoolishness\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan D. Blum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501774743\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501774744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 426\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.95d","brand":"Susan D. Blum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44761173524735,"sku":"9781501774744","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fc8c2d73-e6bf-438b-9be5-70caffc0bdd2.jpg?v=1706680582","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/schoolishness-susan-d-blum-9781501774744","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}