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This Book Is Not Required
An Emotional and Intellectual Survival Manual for Students
Fifth Edition
- Inge Bell
- Bernard McGrane - Chapman University, USA
- John Gunderson - Chapman University, USA
- Terri L. Anderson - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
October 2013 | 352 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This Fifth Edition of the underground classic This Book Is Not Required: An Emotional and Intellectual Survival Manual for Students breaks new ground in participatory education, offering insight and inspiration to help undergraduates make the most of their college years. This edition continues to teach about the college experience as a whole—looking at the personal, social, intellectual, technological, and spiritual demands and opportunities—while incorporating new material highly relevant to today’s students. The material is presented in a personable and straightforward manner, maintaining Dr. Inge Bell’s illuminating writing style throughout, and invites students to take responsibility for, and make the most of, their educational experiences.
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Fifth Edition
Part I. Academics and Learning
1. Welcome to College
2. Grades: Can You Perform Without the Pressure?
3. Technology and Learning
4. Everybody Hates to Write
Part II. Navigating the Institution
5. Support Your Local Teacher: Or the Care and Feeding of Professors
6. An Academic Question
7. Questions of Academic Integrity
8. Wisdom and Knowledge
9. Pursuing Wisdom in the Academy
10. Adventures in Desocialization
11. Media Me
Part III. Survival Strategies
12. Survival Skills
13. Love
14. Trouble With Parents
15. The Painful Avenues of Upward Mobility
16. Graduation: What They Forgot to Mention
17. The Career: Friend or Foe?
18. Directing Your Own Development
References
Index
About the Authors
About the Contributors: Team Bell
This is a resource that I would recommend to students who are finding the transition difficult.
Department of Humanities, Dundalk Institute of Technology
June 25, 2015
Really useful book for teachers and tutors helping students prepare for higher education.
Education, Totton College
June 19, 2015
Unique, one of a kind text. However, it is way too expensive given its politics.
Sociology Dept, Albertus Magnus College
September 7, 2014
A helpful and accessible book which enables the reader to connect with themselves and become consciously aware of their own development.
Access, South Staffordshire College
August 18, 2014
This has been a useful book for students starting a university course. Helpful advice in a user friendly and accessible book.
Sheffield Centre, LifeSkills
March 28, 2014
