What can I get out of this? : teaching and learning in a classroom full of skeptics / Carlo Rotella.
| Author/creator | Rotella, Carlo, 1964- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2025] |
| Description | 211 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | A quick look inside our heads before we begin -- The first day -- Citizens -- Noticing -- Icebergs -- It's okay to hate the book -- Speaking up -- Unreliable narrators -- Surprise midterm -- True stories on Zoom -- Outcomes -- Afterword : a note on sources and choices. |
| Abstract | "What actually happens in a college literature course, and what does it have to do with the world beyond the classroom? Telling the story of one eventful semester, this rich group portrait shows how 33 freshmen and their professor practice essential life skills as they wrestle with challenging books, consider the purposes of higher education, and confront their own skepticism. This humane account of the humanities in action takes us deep into the minds of people engaged in the business of figuring out how meaning flows through books, lives, the world--part of the essential work of being human that we all do at all times and in all kinds of places, not just in a college classroom."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Rotella, Carlo, 1964- What can I get out of this? Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2025] 0520416570 |
| Genre/form | Case studies |
| LCCN | 2024058428 |
| ISBN | 9780520416567 |
| ISBN | 9780520416550 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0520416554 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0520416562 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Standard identifier# | CIPO000261219 |
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