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Nicky Agate uploaded the file: “Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence to
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does “excellence” actually mean anything? Does this pervasive narrative of “excellence” do any good? Drawing on a range of sources we…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic How might you employ/deploy the process & ideas of the first HuMetricsHSS event? in the discussion
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoAt the first HuMetricsHSS workshop, we asked participants how they might take the process and ideas generated there back into their own professional and institutional contexts. This thread is for feedback, ideas, and reporting back!
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Nicky Agate's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months ago
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Feedback and Feature Requests on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoWe are about to embark on a UX audit of MLA Commons and would love to know what you like (and, more importantly, don’t like) about the platform. Help us make the Commons a more user-friendly place to be!
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I’ve used Commons a lot. The things I think are best:
* many privacy & participation options for different types of pages;
* ability to upload documents and files for sharing; discussion boards;
* ability to get activity updates in digest form, so that it’s easy to tell when new things happen.Things that could be improved:
* make all MLA…[Read more]
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Paula M. Krebs deposited Olive Schreiner’s Racialization of South Africa in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSouth African novelist and essayist Olive Schreiner interpreted South African racial and class categories for British readers in an effort to prevent what she worried would be bloody conflict between Boers and indigenous Africans.
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Paula M. Krebs deposited Olive Schreiner’s Racialization of South Africa on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
South African novelist and essayist Olive Schreiner interpreted South African racial and class categories for British readers in an effort to prevent what she worried would be bloody conflict between Boers and indigenous Africans.
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Paula M. Krebs deposited Folklore, Fear, and the Feminine: Ghosts and Old Wives’ Tales in Wuthering Heights in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoFolk sources and narratives underlie much of Wuthering Heights.
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Paula M. Krebs deposited Folklore, Fear, and the Feminine: Ghosts and Old Wives’ Tales in Wuthering Heights on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
Folk sources and narratives underlie much of Wuthering Heights.
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Paula M. Krebs's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
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Paula M. Krebs's profile was updated on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
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Nicky Agate started the topic Think the academy has its values & incentives all wrong? in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoDear colleagues,
Forgive the intrusion, but I thought some members of this group might be interested in the following (and the HuMetrics team would certainly be interested in hearing the perspectives of those interested in writing pedagogies):
Are you concerned about the growing reliance on quantitative metrics to evaluate research—and p…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Think the academy has its values & incentives all wrong? in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoDear colleagues,
Are you concerned about the growing reliance on quantitative metrics to evaluate research—and people—in the humanities and social sciences? Do you think that current evaluation practices emphasize quantity over quality, discourage collegiality, ignore inclusivity, and overlook the importance of non-traditional forms of rese…[Read more] - Load More
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