How Professors Think pdf free download. Excellence is the holy grail of academic life. Scholars strive to produce research that will influence the direction of their field. Universities compete to improve their relative rank 1ings. Students seek inspiring mentors. But if excellence is ubiquitously evoked, there is little cross-disciplinary consensus about what it means and how it is achieved, especially in the world of research. “The cream of the crop” in an English or anthropology department has little in common with “the best and the brightest in an economics department.
How Professors Think pdf free download
This disparity does not occur because the academic enterprise is bankrupt or meaningless. It happens because disciplines shine under varying lights and because their members define quality in various ways. Moreover, criteria for assessing quality or excellence can be differently weighted and are the object of intense conflicts. Making sense of standards and the meanings given to them is the object of this book.
How Professors Think pdf free download
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