Comments on: Academic Charisma http://savageminds.org/2006/10/18/academic-charisma/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 24 May 2012 01:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tenured Radical http://savageminds.org/2006/10/18/academic-charisma/comment-page-1/#comment-37170 Tenured Radical Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:06:45 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/18/academic-charisma/#comment-37170 There is a lot to say about teaching evaluations in general & I would be interested in your thoughts. I have an entry on my blog at tenured-radical.blogspot.com: would be interested in your feedback. RateMy Profesor is possibly only the most egregious effect of hte desire to evaluate. My question is, what would it mean if higher education REALLY cared about teaching, learning and critical thinking? What would that look like? There is a lot to say about teaching evaluations in general & I would be interested in your thoughts. I have an entry on my blog at tenured-radical.blogspot.com: would be interested in your feedback. RateMy Profesor is possibly only the most egregious effect of hte desire to evaluate. My question is, what would it mean if higher education REALLY cared about teaching, learning and critical thinking? What would that look like?

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]]> By: L http://savageminds.org/2006/10/18/academic-charisma/comment-page-1/#comment-37076 L Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:04:46 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/18/academic-charisma/#comment-37076 I can't remember the source, but I heard that there actually ARE some universities that use the Rate My Professor site in reviews! I can’t remember the source, but I heard that there actually ARE some universities that use the Rate My Professor site in reviews!

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]]> By: Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » A Reponse to “The Nutty Professors” http://savageminds.org/2006/10/18/academic-charisma/comment-page-1/#comment-36773 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » A Reponse to “The Nutty Professors” Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:35:27 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/18/academic-charisma/#comment-36773 [...] My colleague Richard Senghas, an anthropologist at Sonoma State University, sent me this email in regard to the New Yorker article mentioned by Kerim last week. His take on Grafton’s “The Nutty Professors” is rather less forgiving than Kerim’s, but I think he makes some very important points that are worth considering, so I asked him if I could post it here. The text is slightly edited to remove the “emaily” parts (and he’s approved the changes). [...] [...] My colleague Richard Senghas, an anthropologist at Sonoma State University, sent me this email in regard to the New Yorker article mentioned by Kerim last week. His take on Grafton’s “The Nutty Professors” is rather less forgiving than Kerim’s, but I think he makes some very important points that are worth considering, so I asked him if I could post it here. The text is slightly edited to remove the “emaily” parts (and he’s approved the changes). [...]

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]]> By: oook blog http://savageminds.org/2006/10/18/academic-charisma/comment-page-1/#comment-35738 oook blog Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:12:16 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/18/academic-charisma/#comment-35738 <strong>Academic charisma...</strong> Don't miss Anthony Grafton's The Nutty Professors: the history of academic charisma, a review of William Clark's Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University, in this week's New Yorker, especially if the opening paragraph draws a ru... Academic charisma…

Don’t miss Anthony Grafton’s The Nutty Professors: the history of academic charisma, a review of William Clark’s Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University, in this week’s New Yorker, especially if the opening paragraph draws a ru…

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