The ACYIG is delighted to present our latest Spotlight on Scholarship:
Has schooling killed learning?
Blum, Susan. 2024. Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning. NY: Cornell University Press.
In Schoolishness I ask all the ways—I analyze 10—conventional institutional education leads to alienation, and then all the ways it could be better, more authentic, more joyful, more meaningful. The book is deeply anthropological, drawing on what we know about how humans learn “in the wild,” and comparing this to the ineffective and often harmful schoolish ways that increasingly all humans are expected to experience in the contemporary world [see more]
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