Conceptualizing the Academic Life: Graduate Students' Perspectives

2006/11/01 by Jeffery P. Bieber, Linda K. Worley, Linda Kraus Worley
Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions #Higher Education Research Studies #Evaluation of Teaching Practices

paper · doi:10.1080/00221546.2006.11778954

Abstract

Relying on interviews with 34 doctoral students from three public research universities, we explore graduates students' perceptions of faculty life. Schema theory informs our understanding of the immutability of students' "script of the ideal," an immutability that suggests the graduate student socialization process may be less powerful than often conceived.

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