Listen Up! Be Responsible! What Graduate Students Hear About University Teaching, Graduate Education and Employment

What we hear at universities and in public conversations is that there is a crisis in graduate student education and employment. We are interested here in the (re)circulation of the discourses of crisis and responsibility. What do graduate students hear about their education, their career prospects,...

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Published in:Canadian journal of higher education (1975) 2014-12, Vol.44 (3), p.20-38
Main Authors: Aspenlieder, Erin, Vander Kloet, Marie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Canada
College Instruction
Course Descriptions
Discourse Analysis
Doctoral Programs
Educational Development
Employment
Employment Opportunities
Foreign Countries
Graduate Students
Graduate Study
Higher Education
News Media
Quality of education
Responsibility
Theory Practice Relationship
University colleges
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Summary:What we hear at universities and in public conversations is that there is a crisis in graduate student education and employment. We are interested here in the (re)circulation of the discourses of crisis and responsibility. What do graduate students hear about their education, their career prospects, and their responsibilities? How does work in educational development contribute to these conversations? We explore these questions through an analysis of two data sets: the course outlines for multidiscipline graduate courses on university teaching, and popular and academic press articles on graduate education and employment. Through this discursive analysis, we first examine what graduate students hear through these two archives of writing. We then unpack two key discourses that emerge across the archives: the privileging of practice over theory, and the desire to assign responsibility for how the crisis of graduate education and employment should be resolved and by whom.  
ISSN:0316-1218
2293-6602
DOI:10.47678/cjhe.v44i3.186036