Table of contents:
Contents
1. Problems and Perspectives
Questioning Trends in Graduate Education
Defining "The Problem"
2.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
3.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
4.Culture and Oppression: The "Other" as Graduate
Student
Forms of Oppression
Experience of the Other
Realities
5.Power and the Dissertation: Faculty as Demigods
Ritual and Gatekeeping
Dilemmas and Demigods
6.Voices of the Oppressed
7.How Might Things Be Otherwise?
Recent Thoughts on Reform
Philosophical Concerns
Parting Thoughts
References
Index
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
"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, , Spring-Summer 2001
