The Graduate Grind

ISBN-13: 9780815338352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 186 str.

Patricia H. Hinchey; P. Hinchey;Hinchey Patrici

Opis

The Graduate Grind looks closely at the culture of graduate school in an effort to uncover why graduate students routinely experience extreme depression, illness, divorce and sometimes even suicide and murder.

Recenzje

"Common assumptions and routines of graduate education are questioned, and institutional prejudice on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, race, and class is brought to light through the stories of graduate students." -- Higher Education Abstracts,

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Problems and Perspectives; Chapter 2 Sources of Institutional Power; Chapter 3 Institutional Cultures and Power; Chapter 4 Culture and Oppression; Chapter 5 Power and the Dissertation; Chapter 6 Voices of the Oppressed 1 All narratives in this chapter have been culled from taped interviews with volunteers. The transcripts have been edited to make the written narratives easier to read and more coherent. The words, thoughts, and stories, however, come entirely from the speakers.; Chapter 7 How Might Things be Otherwise?;

O autorze

Patricia Hinchey, Isabel Kimmel