A few days ago, Retraction Watch, uncovered the fact that a business school has abruptly terminated the employment of a professor, citing his actions as detrimental to the university's reputation and that of its scholarly journal. The dismissed professor had shared an image of the table of contents from an issue of a journal published by his university. A part of the ironic text he posted on Twitter is shown above. The name of the audacious professor who bore a very high cost for upholding honorable ethics is Muhammad Mohsin Butt https://retractionwatch.com/2023/11/08/exclusive-whistleblower-fired-after-raising-concerns-about-journal-articles-on-linkedin/#more-128219
domingo, 19 de novembro de 2023
Audacious academics fearlessly putting their careers and freedom on the line
A few days ago, Retraction Watch, uncovered the fact that a business school has abruptly terminated the employment of a professor, citing his actions as detrimental to the university's reputation and that of its scholarly journal. The dismissed professor had shared an image of the table of contents from an issue of a journal published by his university. A part of the ironic text he posted on Twitter is shown above. The name of the audacious professor who bore a very high cost for upholding honorable ethics is Muhammad Mohsin Butt https://retractionwatch.com/2023/11/08/exclusive-whistleblower-fired-after-raising-concerns-about-journal-articles-on-linkedin/#more-128219
sábado, 18 de novembro de 2023
Professores universitários ofendidos e ameaçados por alunos
Ainda sobre a "avaliação" que os estudantes fazem dos professores, em Fevereiro de 2014, recebi do catedrático Gonçalves da Silva, da Universidade Nova (com quem troquei ao longo de vários anos centenas de emails sobre a academia e a actualidade politica) um ficheiro contendo um discurso, de 4 páginas (em anexo) do vencedor da medalha Timoshenko, Eli Sternberg (1917-1988) e do mesmo entendo reproduzir as seguintes palavras:
"such evaluations tend to inflate the importance of the most superficial aspects of teaching; because they invite a popularity contest among the faculty that may favor glib and facile efforts over more demanding expositions in depth. Further, it seems to me that students - even graduate students -may not be in a position to assess the true competence of an instructor or the permanent value of the material presented. Perhaps the most memorable teacher I ever had was a notoriously poor lecturer, and I failed to appreciate fully the influence of my exposure to him until later in life."
