Successful graduate student socialization has been characterized as the acceptance and adoption of disciplinary values and beliefs into the students’ identity (Bragg, 1976; Weidman, Twale, & Stein, 2001). Some scholars assert that assimilating the values and beliefs of the discipline may be difficult for Blacks students as their cultural beliefs and values may be incongruent (Antony, 2002; Tierney & Rhoads, 1994). Surprisingly, there appears to be no empirical studies exploring this assertion for Black Ph.D. students. The purpose of this study was to determine if cultural beliefs and values influence the socialization experiences of Black Ph.D. students. Specifically, using racial identity as a theoretical framework, hierarchical regression analysis was used to examine the relationship between racial identity and socialization (as measured by faculty-student interactions, peer-peer interactions, and student’s perceptions of faculty) of Black Ph.D. students at predominantly White institutions (PWIs). Data were collected from 389 current Ph.D. students and recent completers. Racial identity was assessed using the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity (Sellers, Smith, Shelton, Rowley, & Chavous, 1998). After controlling for key demographic variables, results indicated racial identity influenced some aspects of socialization. Specifically, public regard was positively related to faculty-student interaction as well as students’ perception of faculty. Racial centrality and ascribing to a humanist ideology were also positively related to students’ perception of faculty. Finally, ascribing to a nationalist ideology was inversely related to peer-peer interactions. The findings indicate that cultural beliefs and values do influence the socialization experience. Moreover, the results reveal a potential rationale for the possible differences in socialization among Black Ph.D. students. Specifically, differences in racial identity attitudes and beliefs influence the behavior of students and thus their socialization experience. Overall, the findings suggest that faculty and students in Ph.D. programs at PWI institutions might develop socialization practices that take into consideration cultural differences. Specific recommendations include: forming a mentoring/advising partnership with student to determine the most relevant plan for socialization into the student’s desired roles and using pedagogies and practices such as collaborative learning and wise schooling that are culturally relevant and supportive.

Le dispositif des enseignements d’exploration de la réforme du lycée de 2010 se distingue des enseignements traditionnels par la liberté octroyée dans sa conception au niveau de curriculum potentiel et parce qu’il s’apparente à une éducation à l’orientation par l’exploration de cursus et d’activités professionnelles. Un partenariat, nommé EDIFICE, conçu par l’université d’Orléans, est une forme curriculaire potentielle du dispositif d’enseignement d’exploration de Méthodes et Pratiques Scientifiques pour la classe de seconde. Dans sa tranche n°1, il regroupe des laboratoires de recherche avec des lycées d’enseignement général et technologique, et vise la participation d’élèves à des activités de recherches de doctorants au cours de moments en laboratoire. Chaque doctorant encadre deux à six élèves accompagnés par un enseignant du lycée. Le contexte éducatif des laboratoires nous conduit à définir l’action d’exploration, afin de constituer le fondement théorique relatif à ce travail. Nous questionnons ensuite la mise en œuvre du dispositif EDIFICE par rapport à une approche curriculaire associée à la notion de pratiques sociales de référence: 1) Comment les élèves explorent les pratiques sociales de référence des laboratoires ? 2) Comment ils explorent les pratiques de recherche doctorale ? 3) Comment les explorations en laboratoire sont co-produites par les trois types d’acteurs impliqués : le doctorant, les élèves et l’enseignant accompagnateur ? Notre recueil de données porte sur la totalité des 26 groupes doctorant, élèves et enseignant accompagnateur de la première année de mise en œuvre du dispositif. Nous analysons, selon la question de recherche, des réponses écrites des élèves, des entretiens réalisés avec les trois types d’acteur, des observations lors d’un congrès des élèves et dans les laboratoires visités. Des cahiers de laboratoire et les diaporamas du congrès des élèves sont également étudiés, ainsi que des articles de recherche, des supports de présentations et des thèses des doctorants. Tout d’abord, nous constatons que les élèves élaborent des représentations nombreuses sur les sciences et la pratique sociale des chercheurs, puisqu’ils se rendent compte de l’importance des écrits, des flux d’informations en réseau et entrevoient maintenant le laboratoire comme un espace de collaboration. La rencontre avec la résistance du réel et la phénoménotechnique contribuent à décloisonner les sciences, les technologies et la société. Les sciences en action sont considérées, pour certains, comme imaginées et inventées et cette expérience permet globalement un élargissement des possibilités d’orientation. Ensuite, nous inférons quatre modes distincts d’exploration de la recherche doctorale. Un mode se focalise sur l’acquisition de concepts généraux de la thèse, un autre transpose de manière synthétique une démarche de la recherche doctorale. Un troisième mode correspond à une démarche personnelle de problématisation. Dans le mode ethnographique, la recherche est explorée à un instant donné, sans adaptation. Les explorations des élèves apparaissent tributaires de l’épistémologie de la discipline de recherche. Enfin, les enseignants accompagnateurs et les élèves exercent une influence majeure sur la nature des explorations lors du processus de co-production qui conduit à des modifications sur la conception du curriculum potentiel. La possibilité pour chacun des acteurs d’explorer est discutée en lien avec l’enrichissement mutuel conféré par le cadre partenarial. / French High Schools experienced a national reform plan in 2010 incorporating exploration courses breaking with traditional teachings. This granted more freedom in their conception as potential curriculums because these courses can involve career choice and thus enable students to explore both curriculums and professional environments. A partnership, named EDIFICE, set up by the University of Orléans, France, is a potential curricular form of the course entitled “Scientific methods and practices” for 10th grade students. In the first phase of the project, a partnership between research labs and High Schools has been set up in order to involve High School students in the research activities of PhD Students in their labs. Each PhD student works with two to six students who are themselves chaperoned by a High School teacher. The educational context of the labs makes it necessary to define the exploration, in order to constitute the theoretical foundation of this work. The implementation of the EDIFICE project is then questioned and compared to a curricular approach associated to the notion of social practice of reference: 1) How do the students explore the social practices of reference in the labs? 2) How do they explore the practices of PhD research? 3) How are the explorations in labs co-produced by the PhD student, the students, and the chaperoning High School teacher? Our data covers the 26 groups of PhD students, High School students and chaperoning teachers over the first year of implementation of the project. Data analysis consisted of the written answers provided by the students, the interviews of the three types of participants, the observations’ notes made during a conference of the High School students and the labs visits. Lab notebooks and slide shows from the High School students’ conference are also studied, as well as research articles, presentation materials, and the PhD thesis from the PhD students involved in the project. First of all, it can be observed that students have numerous representations of sciences and the social practices of researchers since they have realized the importance of the written medium, of the flows of networking information and are now able to perceive the lab as a space for collaboration. The experience of the resistance of the real and phenomenotechnique contribute to remove the partitions between sciences, technologies, and society. The sciences in action are considered, by some, as imagined or invented and this experience enables, more generally speaking, to enlarge the possibilities of course and career choices for the High School students involved. Then, four distinct modes of exploration of PhD research are inferred. One mode is focused on the acquisition of general concepts of the thesis, another one transposes synthetically one approach of the PhD research. A third mode corresponds to the personal approach of the formulation of the research question. In the ethnographic mode, the research is explored at a given moment, without adaptation. The explorations of the students seem dependent on the epistemology of the researched discipline. Finally, the chaperoning teachers and the students have a major influence on the nature of the explorations during the process of co-production which leads to modifications of the conception of the potential curriculum. The possibility for each and one of the participants to explore is discussed in connection with a mutual enrichment made possible by the partnership framework of the EDIFICE project.

The roles that universities played in the response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster were significant and varied; however, there was limited study on participating graduate students. The purpose of this study was to understand the impact of disaster response on graduate students' personal and academic development. This study examined research questions about the perceived impact on academic and personal identity development. Empowerment, cognitive content engagement, general systems theory, and utilitarianism formed the theoretical foundation. This study used a transcendental phenomenological approach to examine the subjects' experiences in the context of involvement in disaster response. The primary source of data was semiopen interviews with individuals that were publicly recruited graduate students at the time of their involvement in the Fukushima nuclear disaster response; data were triangulated with interviews from faculty supervisors. Analyzing the data resulted in the themes of predisaster normality, proximal impact, stress, perception of foreignness, relationships, breakdowns in relationships, change, new relationships, and religion. Interpreting these themes, it was determined that proximity played a role in the decision to engage in the response effort. Furthermore, identification with victims increased the stress of participants. While the experience was empowering, caution is necessary. Further research is recommended into disaster recovery, the role of interpreters in disaster response, and the role of universities in disaster infrastructure. This information can promote social change by enabling graduate students and gatekeepers to better understand potential outcomes for incorporating graduate students into disaster infrastructure.

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As writing about writing (WAW) research enters its "second wave," characterized not only by an increase in data-driven studies that theorize and assess the effectiveness of WAW curricula (Downs) but also by an increase in its prominence and adaptation, particularly among emerging writing studies scholars and teachers (e.g., Bird et al.), a space has opened for more and varied types of research, especially empirical research, to determine its effectiveness and to produce more solid recommendations for training and curriculum development, especially for those who are new to the field. This case study, which highlights how a novice teacher responds to a new teaching experience, aims to address the dearth of empirical research on WAW curricula and to aid other graduate instructors interested in teaching WAW or program administrators interested in implementing WAW. The study reports results from data collected (e.g., interviews, in-class observations, teachings logs) on the experience of a second-year MA graduate student in composition and rhetoric as he taught a WAW-based curriculum in a first-year composition (FYC) class in the beginning of 2016. His twenty students were also research subjects, but only a small portion of their data is reported here. The instructor's experience, chronicled in narrative form, began optimistically, though with a hint of skepticism, and ended in discouragement and even pessimism. These results were largely unexpected due to the instructor's confidence with and knowledge of WAW history, assumptions, and pedagogy and experience teaching FYC. However, his struggle with the approach reveals and confirms several important points for anyone hoping to teach or implement WAW. Particularly, new WAW instructors need sustained training, support, and mentoring to help them properly temper their expectations for the course, correctly and usefully interpret their experiences teaching WAW, successfully transfer prior teaching knowledge and methods to the WAW classroom, and ultimately find their place in WAW instruction.

As writing about writing (WAW) research enters its second wave, characterized not only by an increase in data-driven studies that theorize and assess the effectiveness of WAW curricula (Downs) but also by an increase in its prominence and adaptation, particularly among emerging writing studies scholars and teachers (e.g., Bird et al.), a space has opened for more and varied types of research, especially empirical research, to determine its effectiveness and to produce more solid recommendations for training and curriculum development, especially for those who are new to the field. This case study, which highlights how a novice teacher responds to a new teaching experience, aims to address the dearth of empirical research on WAW curricula and to aid other graduate instructors interested in teaching WAW or program administrators interested in implementing WAW. The study reports results from data collected (e.g., interviews, in-class observations, teachings logs) on the experience of a second-year MA graduate student in composition and rhetoric as he taught a WAW-based curriculum in a first-year composition (FYC) class in the beginning of 2016. His twenty students were also research subjects, but only a small portion of their data is reported here. The instructors experience, chronicled in narrative form, began optimistically, though with a hint of skepticism, and ended in discouragement and even pessimism. These results were largely unexpected due to the instructors confidence with and knowledge of WAW history, assumptions, and pedagogy and experience teaching FYC. However, his struggle with the approach reveals and confirms several important points for anyone hoping to teach or implement WAW. Particularly, new WAW instructors need sustained training, support, and mentoring to help them properly temper their expectations for the course, correctly and usefully interpret their experiences teaching WAW, successfully transfer prior teaching knowledge and methods to the WAW classroom, and ultimately find their place in WAW instruction.

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The aim of the essay is to examine how the student exhibitions of the Royal University college of Fine Arts in Stockholm has changed between 1962-2011, and what these changes can depend on. The questions are: What are the changes in the choice of examination work for the students of the Royal University college of Fine Arts, and what can they depend on? Is the school adjusting their education to the surrounding art world, and in what way is that noticeable? By studying the catalogs from the exhibitions, newspaper reviews and other literature, a shorter conclusion is given concerning the art world, the study situation and the student’s choices of examination works the affected years. The works has gone from being a submission of the study fields during the year, to becoming free projects where stories about important subjects are told. Pressures on the school from students and teachers to be able to keep up with the surrounding view of art in the society that is constantly changing, together with reforms and investigation has led to these changes.

East Tennessee State University has taken several approaches to offering professional development for graduate students over the past several years. This includes graduate student research grants, thesis and dissertation awards, teaching awards, awards for service for the public good, Graduate Student Success Specialist service, Thesis/Dissertation/Capstone Boot Camp, Add-on Fellowships, GA Fee Scholarship, Thesis/Dissertation Scholarships, formal courses (GRAD), graduate student research magazine, and workshops. These will be briefly described, including funding sources supporting the initiatives. A mention of professional development for faculty will also be presented. There will be ample time for discussion of strategies and sharing of ideas by participants.

There currently exists a challenge in higher education to improve undergraduate education. The development and more adequate preparation of future faculty, who are current graduate students, is one of several options identified as a viable strategy to address this challenge. This dissertation explored the quality of motivation as a factor affecting the preparation or socialization of future faculty at two top-tier universities. The quality of motivation is believed salient to preparation and socialization. This study focused on the motivation types of teaching-focused future faculty preparation program (FFPP) completers, their programmatic experiences, and various personal and social factors, such as gender, program, and academic discipline, as reason for motivation type. This mixed methods research study was based on the tenets of self-determination theory and revealed quantitatively, through inferential statistics, that a significant difference exists in the motivation type of participants based on gender, program, and academic discipline. Qualitative findings, from focus group interviews, were that FFPP design characteristics included elements to satisfy the innate psychological need for competence but fell short in meeting the need for relatedness. The findings offer insights into aspects that affect the quality of motivation in program participants. They also suggest that in order to more adequately prepare and socialize future faculty, consideration must be given to the importance of satisfying innate psychological needs in an effort to enhance the quality of participant motivation. Both findings support the importance of relatedness in affecting the quality of motivation. The findings of this study support the notion that certain demographic or contextual factors, as well as the satisfaction of innate psychological needs are critical to motivation quality, internalization, behavior, and socialization. The results of this study will contribute to program developers' awareness of motivation quality and its effect on behavior to enhance the design of teaching-focused future faculty preparation programs and socialization. Through the use of motivation quality, this study serves as a catalyst for the more adequate preparation of future faculty to improve undergraduate education.