The Graduate Grind: A Critical Look at Graduate Education

ISBN-13: 9780815333975 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 186 str.

Patricia H. Hinchey

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. What elements provoke the sense of powerlessness and hopelessness that produces such extreme reactions in students? Unlike others who consider student suffering and failure an integral part of a system based appropriately on survival of the fittest, Hinchey and Kimmel argue instead that too much student suffering comes from rampant and sanctioned abuse of power. Examining common assumptions and routines through the lens of critical theory, the authors question several aspects of graduate education, including the conception of graduate students as institutional capital; institutionalized prejudice based on age, gender, sexual orientation, race and class; and competing power and value systems. Throughout the book, the authors allow students to tell their own stories, putting a human face on the results of abuses generated by unchecked power and privilege.

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