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ERIC Number: EJ402638
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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How Academic Program Review Can Foster Intellectual Conformity and Stifle Diversity of Thought and Method.
Skolnik, Michael L.
Journal of Higher Education, v60 n6 p619-43 Nov-Dec 1989
Some of the ways in which a system of program evaluation works to suppress diversity, innovation, and nonconformist approaches in the search for knowledge are discussed. The Ontario experience calls into question the appropriateness of a total system-wide application of the connoisseurship model. (MLW)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Conformity, Divergent Thinking, Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Models, Program Evaluation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Council of Ontario Universities; Ontario; Program Review