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Download full textUrch, Kakie – 1995
The violence of any literacy acquisition in the contact zone between the powered, the disempowered, and the empowered is never clearcut. But, nevertheless, calls to theory literacy from the late 70s and early 80s have been answered with a rush. Michael Berube writes that "graduate school in English seems to have a very bad effect on people…
Descriptors: English Departments, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Peer reviewedEisenberg, Anne F. – Teaching Sociology, 1999
Responds to "Rethinking the Graduate Seminar." Addresses four areas of misconception: (1) the goal of graduate programs; (2) the role of graduate seminars; (3) the role of the instructor's goals and teaching style; and (4) the distinction between student motivation and abilities. Presents a model linking graduate seminars with the skills…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Peer reviewedKirk, Deborah; Todd-Mancillas, William R. – Review of Higher Education, 1991
A study of 28 graduate teaching assistants' socialization experiences identified 171 salient experiences signaling and intensifying identification with the departments and their roles as fledgling academicians. Experiences are categorized as (1) changes in intellectual self-evaluation; (2) encounters with students, peers, and superiors; and (3)…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Recruitment, Graduate Students, Higher Education
