Clueless in academe : how schooling obscures the life of the mind /

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Gerald Graff argues that our schools and colleges make the intellectual life seem more opaque, narrowly specialised, and beyond normal learning capacities than it is or needs to be. Left clueless in the academic world, many students view the life of the mind as a secret society for which only an eli...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Graff, Gerald
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Education, Higher > Social aspects > United States.
Learning and scholarship > United States.
Enseignement supérieur > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Savoir et érudition > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
EDUCATION > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Education, Higher > Social aspects
Learning and scholarship
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The university is popular culture, but it doesn't know it yet
  • The problem problem and other oddities of academic discourse
  • The mixed-message curriculum
  • Intellectualism and its discontents
  • Two cheers for the argument culture
  • Paralysis by analysis?
  • Communicative disorders
  • Unlearning to write
  • Scholars and sound bites, the myth of academic difficulty
  • Why Johnny can't argue
  • Outing criticism
  • The application guessing game with Andrew Hoberek
  • Teaching the club
  • Hidden intellectualism
  • A word for words and a vote for quotes
  • Wrestling with the devil
  • Deborah Meier's progressive traditionalism.

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