Professionalism: what graduate students need.

From: symploke | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Hoberek, Andrew | Copyright information

In what follows, I argue that we need to think more seriously about graduate education as professional training: that is, as training geared towards preparing students to perform the work of professional academics. (1) Implicit in my argument is, of course, the idea that we don't do this now. The closest we now come is when we think about preparing our students "for the market." The sadly appropriate resonances of cattle ranching in this phrase aside, such preparation assumes that ...

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