How professors think : inside the curious world of academic judgment
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2009
- 330 p. ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Judging quality isn't robotically rational; it's emotional, cognitive, and social, too. Yet most academics' self-respect is rooted in their ability to analyze complexity and recognize quality, in order to come to the fairest decisions about that elusive god, "excellence." In How Professors Think, 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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College teachers, Rating of Peer review Teacher effectiveness Portfolios in education Anthropology Bourbieu, Pierre Canon wars Collegiality Cultural capital Deprofessionalization Disciplinary cultures Diversity Emotion work Epistemological styles Evaluation criteria Expertise panelists Homophily Post-structuralism Rational choice theory Universalism Voting strategies