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

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

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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, powerfu...

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Lamont, Michèle,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Table of 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

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