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      The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Vices of Higher Education in America

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      The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Vices of Higher Education in America
      ByMichael Lewis
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1997
      eBook Published 30 December 2019
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315503455
      Pages 230
      eBook ISBN 9781315503455
      Subjects Education
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      Lewis, M. (1997). Poisoning the Ivy: The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Vices of Higher Education in America (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315503455

      ABSTRACT

      "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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter Chapter 1|21 pages

      An Almanac of Academic Betrayals

      The Phenomenology of Denial

      chapter Chapter 2|34 pages

      Hear, See, and Speak No Evil

      The Facilitation of Denial

      chapter Chapter 3|47 pages

      The Seven Pedagogical Sins

      Dirty Little Secrets 1

      chapter Chapter 4|39 pages

      The Bad Joke of Scholarship

      Dirty Little Secrets 2

      chapter Chapter 5|35 pages

      The Spurious Shield of Specialness

      The Need for Reform
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