Hi Eva,
I’m a fan. We draw on this book quite heavily at Plymouth. Yana is a respected cognitive scientist who has worked in some prestigious
labs in the UK, currently based in the US. The book is really useful if you’re looking for hard evidence supporting various ways of learning. It offers very concrete strategies that can be integrated into sessions or study guides (which is what we’re doing)
and the clever illustrations are a bonus. But I’m beginning to sound like her agent… How do you rate it?
All best,
Alicja
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On Behalf Of Eva Szatmari
Sent: 10 January 2019 16:49
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Hi All,
Slightly off topic…
Has anyone seen/used/recommended this book:
Understanding How We Learn A Visual Guide written by Dr
Yana Weinstein and Dr Megan Sumeracki. Book design and illustrations by Oliver Caviglioli. Published by David Fulton/Routledge, August 2018.
Best regards,
Eva Szatmari
Mathematics Learning Development Tutor
School of BEI
Birkbeck College
University of London
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Sent: 10 January 2019 16:09
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Hi – I’ve just received an inspection copy of a new book that might fit the bill. I haven’t examined it in detail yet, but it does
seem to deal with a few of the less self-evident aspects of university life and academic convention for students who are e.g. the first in their families to go to university, or returning to study later in life.
It’s called ‘Academic Success: A student’s guide to studying at university’, by Jean Brick, Nick Wilson, Deanna Wong, Maria, Herke,
from Macmillan Study Skills
For example, as well as a lot of what you might call the ‘standard study skills/academic writing repertoire’ there are sections on:
How is a university organised?
What do the titles of academic staff mean?
What language should I use when emailing an academic staff member?
What is the role of a student?
Academic culture in the twenty-first century
Seems to be readily available via inspection copy – I’ll be considering it for inclusion on my reading lists later in the year, but
it does look promising.
Kind regards,
Karen.
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I was going to suggest the Sinclair book too - takes an unusual angle on it which I quite liked. That's from 2006 tho, so something new might be a gap in the market!
Hi John et al - and a grand new year tae aw
I think such a book - speaking to that broader notion of academic literacies; as for navigating and questioning the wider HE experience?? - would be really useful
One, from wee bit back, to add to the list - Christine Sinclair(CCed)'s Understanding University : A Guide to Another Planet (2006)
Be really useful if you could share that list of such books, if you get one compiled please John man
All best
G
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and dance like no-one's watching
"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice
of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world." Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
"Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that
ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable." Hannah Arendt (The Crisis of Education)
"it is impossible to imagine a future unless we have located ourselves in the present and its history; however, the reverse is also true in that we cannot
locate ourselves in the present and its history unless we imagine the future and commit to creating it"
(Anna Stetsenko, 2015).
Dear all
Can any of you suggest books (as opposed to websites) you’d recommend about going to/being at university for new or soon to be students?
I have, of course, the ‘evergreen’ Burns and Sinfield on my list, but what else is there? Do you think there’s ‘room’ for a new book? I might write one; is anyone else especially interested in
this idea? I’m thinking of a general text dealing with being a student rather than a specifically learning development book.
On Amazon I found
- Uni Lifehacks: Insights From The UK's Most Successful Students Paperback – 12 Aug 2017
by Mr George MacGill (Author), Mr David Jacob (Contributor)
- A Guide to Uni Life: The one stop guide to what university is REALLY like Paperback – 16 Jul 2015
by Lucy Tobin (Author)
- How to Survive University Hardcover – 10 Aug 2017
by Mike Haskins (Author), Clive Whichelow (Author), Kate Rochester (Artist)
- Student Hacks: Tips and Tricks to Make Uni Life Easier Paperback – 8 Feb 2018
by Dan Marshall (Author)
Do any of you know/use these? Any comments? What else is out there?
I’d be grateful for thoughts and ideas
Best wishes
John
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