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Bezig met laden... Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind (editie 2004)door Gerald Graff
Informatie over het werkClueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind door Gerald Graff
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I appreciate Graff''s cogent call for explicit teaching of rhetoric and the machinery of academia ( ) A book-length argument for some relatively commonsense principles: students learn better when they understand a context for what they're learning; instructors have a duty to try to bridge the gap between academic language and the vernacular; student papers are better when they have a sense that they're arguing *against* someone rather than into a vacuum. Valid points, certainly: but as someone mostly convinced of these points on my way in, I found the rhetorical exertion on display here to be essentially skimmable. Graff's book certainly made me look anew at the educational systems within which I, as a student, move every day, and many of his comments and insights resonated deeply with me. But this book could have been about two-thirds shorter, as he repeats himself so frequently -- perhaps taking his own advice to write as clearly as possible by "tell[ing] 'em what you're going to tell 'em, tell[ing] 'em, tell[ing] 'em what you told them" a little _too_ seriously. The ideas are good; the prose rambles more than is really necessary. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Gerald Graff argues that our schools and colleges make the intellectual life seem more opaque, narrowly specialized, 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 refreshing 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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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