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How Professors Think : Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment / Michèle Lamont.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674032668
  • 9780674054158
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.1/2
LOC classification:
  • LB2333 -- L36 2009eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 / Opening the Black Box of Peer Review -- 2 / How Panels Work -- 3 / On Disciplinary Cultures -- 4 / Pragmatic Fairness: Customary Rules of Deliberation -- 5 / Recognizing Various Kinds of Excellence -- 6 /Considering Interdisciplinarity and Diversity -- 7 /Implications in the United States and Abroad -- Appendix: Methods and Data Analysis -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what exactly is it, and how do professors identify it? Michèle Lamont observed deliberations for fellowships and research grants, and interviewed panel members at length. In How Professors Think, she reveals what she discovered about this secretive, powerful, peculiar world. Lamont aims to illuminate the confidential process of evaluation and to push the gatekeepers to both better understand and perform their role.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 / Opening the Black Box of Peer Review -- 2 / How Panels Work -- 3 / On Disciplinary Cultures -- 4 / Pragmatic Fairness: Customary Rules of Deliberation -- 5 / Recognizing Various Kinds of Excellence -- 6 /Considering Interdisciplinarity and Diversity -- 7 /Implications in the United States and Abroad -- Appendix: Methods and Data Analysis -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what exactly is it, and how do professors identify it? Michèle Lamont observed deliberations for fellowships and research grants, and interviewed panel members at length. In How Professors Think, she reveals what she discovered about this secretive, powerful, peculiar world. Lamont aims to illuminate the confidential process of evaluation and to push the gatekeepers to both better understand and perform their role.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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