Student evaluations of teaching: phrenology in the 21st century?
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DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2018.1538118
Abstract: ABSTRACT We argue that student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are a key tactic for justifying and maintaining white male dominance in US higher education. As such, tenure and promotion processes that rely on SETs as… read more here.
Keywords: teaching phrenology; evaluations teaching; technologies power; phrenology ... See more keywords
Talking heads on a Murray River mission: phrenological lecturers and their Aboriginal receptions decoded
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DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2019.1670686
Abstract: Abstract In contemporary Australia, the nineteenth-century science known as phrenology, which claimed that character and intellect could be judged from head shape, often serves as a metonym for the excesses of racial science. While this… read more here.
Keywords: talking heads; mission; heads murray; phrenology ... See more keywords
‘Phrenology as global science, as race science’
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DOI: 10.1080/23801883.2021.1892909
Abstract: How to write a material history of the popular history of the nineteenth-century science of phrenology that is simultaneously situated and global, rather than either national or imperial: this is t... read more here.
Keywords: science; science race; science phrenology; phrenology global ... See more keywords