students everyday emotional experiments

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The Un-TV and the 10 Mph Car: Experiments in Personal Freedom and Everyday Life

4 reviews
Bernard McGrane

Small Press (CA), 1994

A great exploration of how we construct our realities.
A wonderful and startling book. If you actively engage yourself in Dr. McGrane's work, you will not only come away having learned something about yourself, but possibly even have a new understanding of what learning IS. Professor Mcgrane is the ideal teacher, and it comes through in this book. He teaches by allowing space for students to discover "ways of seeing" for themselves. This book ...

This Book Is Not Required: An Emotional Survival Manual for Students

10 reviews
Inge Bell, Bernard McGrane, ...

Pine Forge Press, 2004

Lifesaving and Lifechanging
Reading this book for the first time (I have read it many times since) I was most impacted by the chapter on grades. Bell hits the nail on the head: the entire system of grading, whether necessary for ranking students or not, does influence the way students perceive themselves. True learning happens when one is free from the quest for an A...when one is learning for the learning's sake. This book ...

Beyond Anthropology

1 review
Bernard McGrane

Columbia University Press, 1989

Not just for anthropologists
Simply put, this is the single most devastating, incredible, challenging, revolutionary, terrifying, haunting, beautiful, and rewarding book i've read (... again and again and again). It's repeatedly forced me to reassess everything i've thought i've "known," and deepened my analysis of both knowledge itself and knowledge's nature. At the same time, it's made me a little crazy and robbed me of ...