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The Guerrilla Scholar's Handbook, A guide to the pursuit of learning for pleasure, empowerment, and changing the world.

by Sheldon Greaves

Learning beyond academia

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Learning beyond academia

Sheldon Greaves draws on his experience pursuing a doctorate on a limited budget while working in Silicon Valley to introduce an approach to intellectual work outside academic institutions. The handbook is framed around learning for pleasure and empowerment, and connects independent scholarship with citizen science, making, art, and activism. Its subject is not simply self-directed study, but the possibility of using learning to engage with the wider world. The description also places the book in the context of a varied career spent applying these practices beyond academia.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Independent learners interested in pursuing serious study outside formal academic settings.
  • Readers curious about citizen science, making, art, or activism as forms of intellectual work.
  • Adults exploring learning as a source of personal empowerment or social engagement.

Themes

Independent scholarshipLifelong learningNon-formal educationIntellectual work and social change

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Book overview

How to join the ranks of independent scholars, citizen scientists, recovering academics, makers, artists, activists, and other intellectual ne'er-do-wells pursuing a life of the mind-and changing the world.

Sheldon Greaves earned a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley while living and working in Silicon Valley ibefore the dot.com bust. Pursuing his doctorate on a shoestring and divergent interests led him to develop a different approach to intellectual work. Throughout his long and varied career, Sheldon has used the tools of "guerrilla scholarship" to do interesting intellectual work outside of academia.
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