The Graduate Grind
Author | : Patricia Hinchey |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781135718626 |
ISBN-13 | : 1135718628 |
Rating | : 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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. The authors allow students to tell their own stories, thus humanizing the results of abuses generated by a flawed system. Finding a current exploitation of students unconscionable, Hinchey and Kimmel call for a new vision of graduate education, one in which students are valued and treated as unique and vibrant individuals