TY  - GEN
T1  - Clueless in academe : how schooling obscures the life of the mind
A1  - Graff, Gerald
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn567999345
AB  - 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.
OP  - 309
CN  - LC191.94 .G73 2003eb
SN  - 0300132018
SN  - 9780300132014
SN  - 9786611731113
SN  - 6611731113
SN  - 0300095589
SN  - 9780300095586
SN  - 0300105142
SN  - 9780300105148
SN  - 1281731110
SN  - 9781281731111
KW  - Education, Higher : Social aspects : United States.
KW  - Learning and scholarship : United States.
KW  - Enseignement supérieur : Aspect social : États-Unis.
KW  - Savoir et érudition : États-Unis.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Cultural Policy.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Popular Culture.
KW  - EDUCATION : Philosophy & Social Aspects.
KW  - Education, Higher : Social aspects
KW  - Learning and scholarship
KW  - United States
ER  -