Reading Groups
Upcoming Reading Groups
Mind Over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge
Meets four times this semester (2/4, 2/18, 3/4 & 3/18) on Tuesday from 2:00-3:00 in ZSR 665 (Faculty Commons Classroom inside the Faculty Commons space in ZSR Wilson Wing).
Alarming statistics in recent years indicate that mental health problems have been skyrocketing among youth. Psychologist and professor Sarah Rose Cavanagh interviews experts who work with young people to help them actualize their goals, and highlights voices of college students from a range of diverse backgrounds. The result of these combined sources of inquiry indicates that to support youth mental health, we must create what Cavanagh calls compassionate challenge. Let’s meet and discuss what that might look like.
We will provide the book for the first 15 registrants. These discussions are very popular so we ask that you register only if you are available to attend all sessions.
Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do About It
Meets three times this semester (2/5, 2/19 & 3/5) on Wednesday from 3:30-4:30 in ZSR 665 (Faculty Commons Classroom inside the Faculty Commons space in ZSR Wilson Wing).
One of the most urgent and long-standing issues in the US education system is its obsession with grades. In Failing Our Future, Joshua R. Eyler shines a spotlight on how grades inhibit learning, cause problems between parents and children, amplify inequities, and contribute to the youth mental health crisis. Equal parts scathing and hopeful, Failing Our Future aims to improve the lives of students by encouraging them to define success on their own terms.
We will provide the book for the first 15 registrants. These discussions are very popular so we ask that you register only if you are available to attend all sessions.
Past Reading Groups
Click on the image to see your selection in the ZSR Library digital collection. Please reach out to Kristi Verbeke at verbekkj@wfu.edu if you have a specific question about past reading groups.
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