Socialization of graduate and professional students in higher education
Subtitle: a perilous passage?
By: John C. Weidman, Darla J. Twale, Elizabeth Leahy Stein.
Contributors: Twale, Darla J.; Stein, Elizabeth Leahy.; ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education.
Series: ASHE-ERIC higher education report,; v. 28, no. 3
Publisher: Prepared and published by Jossey-Bass in cooperation with ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, Association for the Study of Higher Education, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, the George Washington University
Published: 2001
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Professional socialization -- United States.; Socialization -- United States.; Education, Higher -- United States.; Professions -- United States.
Description: Examines current challenges in graduate education, including diversity of students, peer culture, distance education, and modification of professional involvement through mentoring programs between faculty and students.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-112) and index.
Table of contents: value: The professions and socialization; value: Conceptualizing socialization in graduate and professional programs; value: A framework for the socialization of graduate and professional students; value: Institutional culture : recurrent themes; value: Institutional culture and socialization : differences among academic programs; value: Easing the perilous passage.