Clueless in Academe : How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind

, by Gerald Graff

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ISBN: 9780300095586 | 0300095589
Cover: Trade Book
Copyright: 4/10/2003

Clueless in Academe : How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind > ISBN13: 9780300095586

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Graff argues that schools & colleges make the intellectual life seem more opaque, narrowly specialised, & beyond normal learning capacities than it is or needs to be.

Gerald Graff is professor of English and education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction: In the Dark All Eggheads Are Gray

(14)

PART I: CONFUSING THE ISSUE

The University Is Popular Culture, But It Doesn't Know It Yet

(28)

The Problem Problem and Other Oddities of Academic Discourse

(19)

The Mixed-Message Curriculum

(19)

PART II: INTELLECTUALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS

Two Cheers for the Argument Culture

(15)

Paralysis by Analysis?

(17)

PART III: COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS

Unlearning to Write

113

(21)

Scholars and Sound Bites: The Myth of Academic Difficulty

134

(21)

Why Johnny Can't Argue

155

(18)

Outing Criticism

173

(17)

The Application Guessing Game with Andrew Hoberek

190

(19)

PART IV: TEACHING THE CLUB

Hidden Intellectualism

209

(23)

A Word for Words and a Vote for Quotes

232

(14)

Wrestling with the Devil

246

(15)

Deborah Meier's Progressive Traditionalism

261

(14)

Epilogue: How to Write an Argument---What Students and Teachers Really Need to Know

275

(4)

Notes

279

(20)

Index

299

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Clueless in Academe : How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind

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