Hello Shari - I would recommend Elizabeth Minnich's Transforming Knowledge, especially the section on mystified concepts, including "excellence."     Donna Engelmann

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A group of us are looking at this as well, I'd appreciate the info also. 
Thanks
Laura


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On Feb 20, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Shari Stone-Mediatore wrote:


	Hi everyone,
	 
	I'm chairing a cmte. that is reviewing our university's evaluation of teaching and, among other things, we'd like to investigate the subtle and unwitting ways that gender bias might enter the evaluations.   In particular, I'd like to invesigate how the standards, themselves, such as "rigor," are conceived in gendered ways.
	 
	Does anyone know of any feminist (or other) critiques of "rigor" in teaching?  Or any other feminist critiques of teaching standards?
	 
	Thanks for any suggetions that anyone can offer.  (And I'd be happy to compile a list of the responses, if there's an interet in ths.)
	 
	-Shari
	 
	Shari Stone-Mediatore
	Associate Professor of Philosophy
	Ohio Wesleyan University
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