What Can I Get Out of This? (eBook)

Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics

Carlo Rotella (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
224 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41657-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A Forbes Best Higher Education Book Of 2025

An eloquent and moving story about the value and the pleasures of intellectual exploration—and why it matters beyond the classroom. 
 
At a time when college students and their parents often question the "return on investment" from humanities courses, accomplished feature writer and English professor Carlo Rotella invites us into the minds of a group of skeptical first-year students who are ultimately transformed by a required literature class. 

In What Can I Get Out of This? he follows thirty-three students through his class to provide an intimate look at teaching and learning from their perspectives as well as his own. The students' reluctance—"How does this get me a job?"—transforms into insight as they wrestle with challenging books, share ideas, discover how to think critically, and form a community. In all these ways, they learn how to extract meaning from the world around them, an essential life skill. Confronting skeptics of higher education, this compassionate and inspiring book reveals the truth of what students actually experience in college.

Inhalt

Contents
 
1. A Quick Look Inside Our Heads Before We Begin
2. The First Day
3. Citizens
4. Noticing
5. Icebergs
6. It's Okay to Hate the Book
7. Speaking Up
8. Unreliable Narrators
9. Surprise Midterm
10. True Stories on Zoom
11. Outcomes
 
Afterword: A Note on Sources and Choices
Acknowledgments
Reading List
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.9.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Classroom management • Close reading • college 101 • college prep • common core • Critical thinking skills • gen ed • Learning Community • Literary Studies • literature analysis methods • Reading Comprehension • Student-Centered Learning • student engagement strategies • teaching guide
• ISBN-10: 0-520-41657-0 / 0520416570
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-41657-4 / 9780520416574