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- catalog abstract "This is an incredible, amusing, horrifying, yet true story, in which all names have been changed to protect the guilty. It tells how the author, a journalist turned college professor, came face to face with Generation X: jaded, unachieving, highly demanding yet lacking any respect for standards or intelligence. These insouciant scholars wore bored looks, ample attitudes, and reversed baseball caps. They expected to earn top grades by just showing up in class, which they interrupted with their portable TVs, cellular phones, or personal pagers. For his own survival as a teacher, Sacks decided to play a bizarre, cynical game: The Sandbox Experiment, in which he catered to the whims of his students as though they were kindergartners. It worked: Sacks became a great success as a 'teacher', got tenure, and now continues to 'teach' at the strange, appalling institution he calls 'The College'.".
- catalog contributor b9739279.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-201) and index.".
- catalog description "This is an incredible, amusing, horrifying, yet true story, in which all names have been changed to protect the guilty. It tells how the author, a journalist turned college professor, came face to face with Generation X: jaded, unachieving, highly demanding yet lacking any respect for standards or intelligence. These insouciant scholars wore bored looks, ample attitudes, and reversed baseball caps. They expected to earn top grades by just showing up in class, which they interrupted with their portable TVs, cellular phones, or personal pagers. For his own survival as a teacher, Sacks decided to play a bizarre, cynical game: The Sandbox Experiment, in which he catered to the whims of his students as though they were kindergartners. It worked: Sacks became a great success as a 'teacher', got tenure, and now continues to 'teach' at the strange, appalling institution he calls 'The College'.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. The sandbox experiment -- ch. 1. Coming into teaching -- ch. 2. Culture shock -- ch. 3. The castle, with apologies to Franz Kafka -- ch. 4. Reflections on the worth of teachers -- ch. 5. "We are grownups now" -- ch. 6. Where all the kids are (way) above average -- ch. 7. Hooked on hand-holding -- ch. 8. "Hey, Dad, put it on pause!" -- ch. 9. The sandbox experiment -- pt. 2. Education in postmodern America -- ch. 10. The postmodern revolt -- ch. 11. The Balkanization of knowledge and power -- ch. 12. The postmodern spectacle and Generation X -- ch. 13. Postmodernity and the entitlement society -- ch. 14. Adapting to a postmodern world.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 208 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Generation X goes to college.".
- catalog identifier "0812693140 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Generation X goes to college.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : Open Court,".
- catalog relation "Generation X goes to college.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "378.1/25 20".
- catalog subject "College students United States Attitudes.".
- catalog subject "College teaching United States.".
- catalog subject "Education, Higher Aims and objectives United States.".
- catalog subject "Generation X United States Attitudes.".
- catalog subject "LB2331 .S17 1996".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism and education United States.".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism and higher education United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. The sandbox experiment -- ch. 1. Coming into teaching -- ch. 2. Culture shock -- ch. 3. The castle, with apologies to Franz Kafka -- ch. 4. Reflections on the worth of teachers -- ch. 5. "We are grownups now" -- ch. 6. Where all the kids are (way) above average -- ch. 7. Hooked on hand-holding -- ch. 8. "Hey, Dad, put it on pause!" -- ch. 9. The sandbox experiment -- pt. 2. Education in postmodern America -- ch. 10. The postmodern revolt -- ch. 11. The Balkanization of knowledge and power -- ch. 12. The postmodern spectacle and Generation X -- ch. 13. Postmodernity and the entitlement society -- ch. 14. Adapting to a postmodern world.".
- catalog title "Generation X goes to college : an eye-opening account of teaching in postmodern America / Peter Sacks.".
- catalog type "text".