The graduate grind : a critical look at graduate education /
Patricia Hinchey, Isabel Kimmel.
- x, 173 p.
- Garland reference library of social science 1421 ; 20. .
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Problems and Perspectives -- Questioning Trends in Graduate Education -- Defining "The Problem" -- Sources of Institutional Power: Constructed Consciousness, Hegemony, and Reification -- Constructed Consciousness: Lessons from Experience -- Institutional Hegemony: Graduate Student Perception of Place and Power -- Reification: Institutions That Can Do No Wrong -- Institutional Cultures and Power: The Minefield of Conflicting Identities -- The Influence of Culture on Behavior -- Culture as an Interpretive Lens -- Institutional Cultures and Student Experience -- Culture and Oppression: The "Other" as Graduate Student -- Forms of Oppression -- Experience of the Other -- Realities -- Power and the Dissertation: Faculty as Demigods -- Ritual and Gatekeeping -- Dilemmas and Demigods -- Voices of the Oppressed -- How Might Things Be Otherwise? -- Recent Thoughts on Reform -- Philosophical Concerns -- Thoughts. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Part ing.