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by: Gerald Graff See Larger Image List Price: $20.00 Amazon.com's Price: $15.00 You Save: $5.00 (25%) Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 306.43 EAN: 9780300105148 ISBN: 0300105142 Label: Yale University Press Manufacturer: Yale University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: July 11, 2004 Publisher: Yale University Press Sales Rank: 255718 Studio: Yale University Press Related Items: They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education They Say/I Say: The Moves that Matter in Persuasive Writing The Craft of Research, 2nd edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) What the Best College Teachers Do see more Editorial Review: Product Description: Our schools and colleges often make the intellectual life seem more impenetrable, narrowly specialized, and inaccessible than it is or needs to be, argues this eminent scholar and educator, whose provocative book offers a wealth of practical suggestions for making the culture of ideas and arguments more readily understandable. “Graff is reopening the door on a major debate. In the wake of theory, in the wake of feminism, post-colonial criticism and all the rest, what is a liberal arts education supposed to be about? How should teachers teach? What should students learn? Intelligently, humanely, Gerald Graff is bringing all of these questions back home to the classroom, which, at least for now, seems exactly where they belong.”—Mark Edmundson, Washington Post Book World “['Graff] writes with lucidity and charm. . . . A worthwhile work.”—Steven Lagerfeld, Wall Street Journal “Clueless in Academe is charming. . . . The reader chuckles in recognition over the tales told of scholars and students.”—Terence Kealey, The Times Higher Education Supplement Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - psst... "Penniless in Academe" Despite all my admiration for the Graff book which I won't detail here, I will entitle my review of this book "Penniless in Academe" because Graff nowhere talks about the material side of what Randy Martin calls the "managed university". Graff wants to build a better mouse trap to persuade more people to take "life of the mind stuff" more seriously, but nowhere does he say how and at what levels his project should be funded; and I'm coming to realize that it doesn't matter what mouse trap ... Read More Rating: - Some good points "Clueless in Academe" is a discussion on how to make the academic intellectual life more accessible and desirable for incoming college students. The underlying premise of the book is that "becoming educated has more to do with thinking and talking about subjects or texts in analytical ways than with the subjects or texts you study." While this premise breaks down rapidly as students progress in their major course of study, it is a useful assumption for teaching beginning college students. Read More Rating: - Great for parents, teachers, and professors This is the book on learning in the classroom that I've been waiting for. So often, even interested students don't get what their teacher wants. When this happens, they can lose confidence in their native abilities and teachers become frustrated in themselves and their students. With Gerald Graff's guidance, teachers can now demistify their expectations while validating their students' intelligence. While this book is directed to teachers, parents will appreciate it as well and may want to pass it ... Read More

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