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Going to university is expensive. It's an investment of money. It
is also a massive leap of faith by everyone connected to your
choice. You hope it will be a good experience, but you aren't sure.
You want it to be fair to you and worth the effort, but there are
no guarantees. Going to university to study and get a degree or
certificate of qualification is as political as it is personal. So
beware and be ready! But worry not. You will spend your money
wisely for a long-term return. Why? Because there is a game to
play, and by picking up this book, you intend to play to win.
Playing the University Game shows you the rules of the game,
strategies for success on your terms (not those of the university
as institution and system) and, most importantly, how to enjoy
yourself as a university student, reaping the long-term benefits
both during your experience and afterwards. How to win the personal
way using political-social knowledge shared with you from inside
the university walls. Helen Lees draws on her research and lived
experiences of self-care in education, combining this with the
voices of established academics, who between them have a
wide-ranging and deeply reflective understanding of the university
and university student interactions. Helen takes you into the heart
of the mechanisms of university life, revealing key moves you need
to make to survive and thrive in the game. She shares with you
which actions and attitudes matter to win, why winning matters, how
you can win without joining a dog-eat-dog competition. Helen
empowers you to see why university education is about you and your
flourishing, not the graduation prize but nevertheless happily also
all about the graduation prize, which really matters. She skills
you with the knowledge you need to avoid stress, to enjoy yourself
and get true value for money from the educational product you have
chosen.
This state-of-the-art, comprehensive Handbook fully explores the
field of alternative education on an international scale.
Alternatives to mainstream schooling and education are becoming
increasingly recognised as pertinent and urgent for better
understanding what really works in successfully educating children
and adults today, especially in light of the increased performance
driven and managerially organised economic modelling of education
that dominates. For too long we have wondered what "exactly"
education done otherwise might look like and here we meet
individual examples as well as seeing what alternative education is
when a collection becomes greater than the sum of parts. The
Handbook profiles numerous empirical examples from around the world
of education being done in innovative and excitingly democratic and
autonomous ways from Forest Schools and Home Education through to
new technologies, neuroscience and the importance of solitude. The
book also sets out important theoretical perspectives to inform us
why seeing education through an alternative lens is useful as well
as urgently needed. Global in its perspective and definitive in
content, this one-stop volume will be an indispensable reference
resource for a wide range of academics, students and researchers in
the fields of Education, Education Policy, Sociology and Philosophy
as well as educational practitioners.
At a time when education and school choices are under increasing
scrutiny, this topical book considers education more broadly than
ever before. The author, an experienced teacher and researcher,
highlights what happens when parents discover that an alternative
to school education exists and is legal. This under-researched
topic highlights the lack of governmental interest in alternative
education and also considers the human rights issues, conflation
with safeguarding, the relationship of the state to education and
parental education choice. Focusing on the discovery of elective
home education (EHE) in England as a case study for new and
necessary arguments, the ideas discussed are also relevant
internationally. The book considers the global fact of education as
not just mainstream schooling, but how the dominance of schooling
has affected our ability to conceive of education as diverse and
different. This thought-provoking book will appeal to academic,
teaching and policy-making audiences.
Going to university is expensive. It's an investment of money. It
is also a massive leap of faith by everyone connected to your
choice. You hope it will be a good experience, but you aren't sure.
You want it to be fair to you and worth the effort, but there are
no guarantees. Going to university to study and get a degree or
certificate of qualification is as political as it is personal. So
beware and be ready! But worry not. You will spend your money
wisely for a long-term return. Why? Because there is a game to
play, and by picking up this book, you intend to play to win.
Playing the University Game shows you the rules of the game,
strategies for success on your terms (not those of the university
as institution and system) and, most importantly, how to enjoy
yourself as a university student, reaping the long-term benefits
both during your experience and afterwards. How to win the personal
way using political-social knowledge shared with you from inside
the university walls. Helen Lees draws on her research and lived
experiences of self-care in education, combining this with the
voices of established academics, who between them have a
wide-ranging and deeply reflective understanding of the university
and university student interactions. Helen takes you into the heart
of the mechanisms of university life, revealing key moves you need
to make to survive and thrive in the game. She shares with you
which actions and attitudes matter to win, why winning matters, how
you can win without joining a dog-eat-dog competition. Helen
empowers you to see why university education is about you and your
flourishing, not the graduation prize but nevertheless happily also
all about the graduation prize, which really matters. She skills
you with the knowledge you need to avoid stress, to enjoy yourself
and get true value for money from the educational product you have
chosen.
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