Legends of Students’ "Clever Answers": Criticism or Affirmation of the Educational System?

Legends of Students’ "Clever Answers": Criticism or Affirmation of the Educational System?

This paper represents an analysis of a group of urban legends from US universities, gathered from a number of web sites and in certain cases compared with analogous examples from Serbia. These legends concentrate around the motif of "clever answers", in which students use witty or otherwis...

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Publicado: University of Belgrade 2016
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:3488b95709e34d5bbb3f1f3489ca1bee2021-12-02T07:59:19ZLegends of Students’ "Clever Answers": Criticism or Affirmation of the Educational System?0353-15892334-8801https://doaj.org/article/3488b95709e34d5bbb3f1f3489ca1bee2016-03-01T00:00:00Zhttp://eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/421https://doaj.org/toc/0353-1589https://doaj.org/toc/2334-8801This paper represents an analysis of a group of urban legends from US universities, gathered from a number of web sites and in certain cases compared with analogous examples from Serbia. These legends concentrate around the motif of "clever answers", in which students use witty or otherwise unconventional means to solve problems or answer questions during exams or other forms of knowledge examination, and usually end up being rewarded for their creativity. The analysis of the formal structure of these legends, as well as their possible functions, indicates that, on the one hand, legends of "clever answers" can represent a form of criticism of the higher education system, but on the other actually aid its reproduction and reinforce its role in the social order. Finally, the implications of this interpretation are investigated in the context of contemporary global transformations of higher education.Jana BaćevićUniversity of BelgradearticleAnthropologyGN1-890ENFRSREtnoantropološki Problemi, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 87-102 (2016)
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Legends of Students’ "Clever Answers": Criticism or Affirmation of the Educational System?
description This paper represents an analysis of a group of urban legends from US universities, gathered from a number of web sites and in certain cases compared with analogous examples from Serbia. These legends concentrate around the motif of "clever answers", in which students use witty or otherwise unconventional means to solve problems or answer questions during exams or other forms of knowledge examination, and usually end up being rewarded for their creativity. The analysis of the formal structure of these legends, as well as their possible functions, indicates that, on the one hand, legends of "clever answers" can represent a form of criticism of the higher education system, but on the other actually aid its reproduction and reinforce its role in the social order. Finally, the implications of this interpretation are investigated in the context of contemporary global transformations of higher education.
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title Legends of Students’ "Clever Answers": Criticism or Affirmation of the Educational System?
title_short Legends of Students’ "Clever Answers": Criticism or Affirmation of the Educational System?
title_full Legends of Students’ "Clever Answers": Criticism or Affirmation of the Educational System?
title_fullStr Legends of Students’ "Clever Answers": Criticism or Affirmation of the Educational System?
title_full_unstemmed Legends of Students’ "Clever Answers": Criticism or Affirmation of the Educational System?
title_sort legends of students’ "clever answers": criticism or affirmation of the educational system?
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