Doing School How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students

Name: Doing School How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students
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ISBN: 9780300098334

ISBN-10: 0300098332

ISBN-13: 9780300098334

Edition: 2003

Authors: Denise Clark Pope

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This is a view of today's high-school students and the ways they pursue high grades and success. Denise Pope follows five motivated students through a school year, closely shadowing them and engaging them in reflections on their school experiences.

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 1/11/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 0.57" wide x 0.82" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Denise Pope is a lecturer at the Stanford University School of Education.



Preface


Acknowledgments



Welcome to Faircrest High



Kevin Romoni: A 3.8 Kind of Guy


Pleasing Dad: The "Good" Student


Getting Furious: The Competitor


Motivated By Passion: The Engaged Learner



Eve Lin: Life as a High School Machine


"Going for the Maximum"


Survival of the Fittest


Enjoying the Process



Teresa Gomez: "I Want a Future"


Dancing as Engagement


"Wanting More": The Search for Engagement



Michelle Spence: Keeping Curiosity Alive?


An Alternate Course


"Sacrificing Academics"


Learning by Doing What You Love



Roberto Morales: When Values Stand in the Way


Diligence


Anxiety


Playing by the Rules


Stress


"Fun"



The Predicament of "Doing School"


"Doing School"


The Grade Trap


Constraints of the School System


We Get What We Bargain For


"If Only Things Could Be Different"


Epilogue


Appendixes



General Information about the Students in the Study



Common Student Behavior Exhibited in Pursuit of Success


Notes


References