Poisoning the Ivy
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A01=Michael Lewis
Academic Aspirants
academic betrayals
Academic Creed
Academic Freedom
academic malfeasance
Academic Malpractice
Author_Michael Lewis
campus reform strategies
Capital Punishment
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Circus Atmosphere
College Professors
Critical Attentiveness
Curricular Reformers
educational quality assessment
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Feminist Studies Program
higher education institutional critique
Ivy league school
Light Teaching Loads
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Ordinary Wrongdoing
pedagogical failure
pedagogical sins
Performance Contracting
Personnel Committees
Professional Accountability
professorial misconduct
Report Research Misconduct
scholarship
Tenured Professors
university accountability
Utilitarian Interest
Vice Versa
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780765600714
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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"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.
Michael Lewis, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
