Fun and Games in Higher Education

The Lonely Crowd Revisited

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture

• Author: Randle W. Nelsen
• ISBN: 9781926662091
• Publisher: Between the Lines
• Publication: September 30, 2007
• Imprint: Between the Lines
• Language: English

Fun & Games & Higher Education ranges from Wayne’s World to hot-rodding, from automobility to the popular phenomenon know as the tailgate party, from German sociologist George Simmel to Canadian Media Guru Marshall McLuhan—all in the interests in exploring North American obsession with play-and particularly the intersection between education, work, and leisure.