About this title: 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 ...
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Edition: Reprint. Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780300105148ISBN:0300105142
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Cover in good with slight wear Edges show wear Text is tight. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 309 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: FIRST EDITION
Binding: HARDCOVER
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780300095586ISBN:0300095589
Description: FINE / NEAR FINE. Author looks at the academic world from the standpoint of "students who don't get it" arguing that "our schools and colleges make the intellectual life seem more apaque, specialized, and beyond normal learning capacities than it is or needs to be. Left clueless in the academic owrld, many students view the life of the mind as a secret society for which only an elite few qualify..." 309 pp. Just a bit of creasing to top edge of dustjacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780300095586ISBN:0300095589
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. Pages clean crisp and unmarked. Cover shows only very minimal shelf wear-not significant. DJ intact but shows some minimal corner and edge wear and rubbing. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 309 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2003-04-10
ISBN-13:9780300095586ISBN:0300095589
Description: Very Good in Like New jacket. Some of the pages have slight highlighting and side notes; otherwise the book is in excellent condition. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2004-07-11
ISBN-13:9780300105148ISBN:0300105142
Description: Very Good. 2003 paperback no marks and is in very good condition All of our products are cleaned with an disinfectant for your protection before shipping. read more
Edition: 3rd Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven and London
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780300095586ISBN:0300095589
Description: Near Fine. 5.5 x 8 trade paperback book. Black and reddish brown lettering on the green and tan spine and illustrated cover. Offers a wealth of practical suggestions for making the culture of ideas and arguments more readily understandable. 309 pages. 3rd Printing. Owner's name. Tight binding. Near Fine condition. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2004-08-01
ISBN-13:9780300105148ISBN:0300105142
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2003-04-10
ISBN-13:9780300095586ISBN:0300095589
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780300105148ISBN:0300105142
Description: New. 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 suggesti... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2003-04-10
ISBN-13:9780300095586ISBN:0300095589
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"Insightful into how students perceive the academe and how teachers may lose them in the process of teaching. A bit repetitive and certainly a bit egotistical in owning his approach as the best approach but provides a few good strategies."
"Gerald Graff, a professor English and education at the University of Illinois-Chicago, takes universities to task for the gulf between students and teachers. Specialty areas of university professors strike too many students as a distant, impregnable fortress. This is not helped by the way classes are taught and students are treated. Very few leave their university years with an understanding of the intellectual life.
Graff argues that we must do a better job stimulating student interest in the things intellectual. One way to do this is by embracing debate and argument, rather than avoiding them in the interests of feeling good or upholding self-esteem. Young people naturally debate the merits of all sorts of things, from sports to popular culture. This approach needed to be cultivated rather than avoided.
Graff makes some good points, in a curmudgeonly way. However, much of what he writes as he diagnoses the dilemmas of university life comes off as shrill. The best parts of the book are not his diagnoses, but rather his solutions. There are some fine ideas about how to teach at both the university and the high school level. In particular, Graff provides the reader/teacher with a nice road map of how to instruct students in the art of persuasive writing by connecting with topics that are meaningful to students."
"Graff has some radical notions about changing educational institutions. I find it hard to disagree with him on most points, but I don't think our society is ready to take the nerd out of intellectualism."
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