"This is a dirty book about higher education." So begins Michael Lewis's provocative new book, one that calls into question the conventional wisdom and about the excellence of American higher education. Lewis argues that teaching and research on America's campuses are plagued by mis- and malfeasance. He further argues that these troubles are the paradoxical implications of professorial self-conceptions. The academic claim of moral and ethical specialness, according to Lewis, unexpectedly creates an environment where hack work or even no work at all is tolerated and in some cases actually rewarded. Through his chapters on "The Seven Pedagogical Sins" and "The Bad Joke of Scholarship, " the author traces the trajectory of the effects of collective denial on the quality of education in America. In his final chapter, Lewis offers a series of reforms intended to reverse faculty permissiveness.
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Anyone who teaches in American higher education realizes that "the Academy" has significant and pervasive problems in its self-governance, effectiveness and in according value for soaring costs. This is an account of what, according to the author, ails America's universities and colleges.
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Chapter 1. An Almanac of Academic Betrayals: The Phenomenology of Denial, Chapter 2. Hear, See, and Speak No Evil: The Facilitation of Denial, Chapter 3. The Seven Pedagogical Sins: Dirty Little Secrets 1 , Chapter 4. The Bad Joke of Scholarship: Dirty Little Secrets 2, Chapter 5. The Spurious Shield of Specialness: The Need for Reform, Appendix: A Single Standard, Please
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780765600714
Publisert
1997-05-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
230

Forfatter

Biographical note

Michael Lewis, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA