TY  - BOOK
AU  - Graff,Gerald
TI  - Clueless in academe: how schooling obscures the life of the mind 
SN  - 0300132018 (electronic bk.)
AV  - LC191.94 .G73 2003eb
U1  - 306.43 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Learning and scholarship
KW  - Enseignement supérieur
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Savoir et érudition
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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 elite few qualify. In a departure from standard diatribes against academia, Graff shows how academic unintelligibility is unwittingly reinforced not only by academic jargon and obscure writing, but by the disconnection of the curriculum and the failure to exploit the many connections between academia and popular culture. Finally, Graff offers a wealth of practical suggestions for making the culture of ideas and arguments more accessible to students, showing how students can enter the public debates that permeate their lives
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