scholarly journals Different Worlds, Mutual Expectations: African Graduate Student Mothers and the Burden of U.S. Higher Education

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane-Frances Y. Lobnibe
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Student Mothers

Spouses of Student Mothers in the United Arab Emirates: Enablers or Constraints to Their Pursuit of Higher Education?

2021 ◽  
pp. 097152152110304
Author(s):  
Martina Dickson ◽  
Lilly Tennant
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
Early Marriage ◽  
Gender And Development ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Student Mothers ◽  
Undergraduate Study ◽  
Participation In Higher Education

The educational status of Emirati women in the United Arab Emirates has developed rapidly over the last five decades, with females now outnumbering males in higher education institutions. Marriage and motherhood often take place during the years of undergraduate study for women, particularly for those from families who retain Emirati cultural traditions of relatively early marriage and childbearing. This study analyses the role which spouses play in their wives’ pursuit of education, using the theoretical gender and development lens to explore whether a transformation of power relations within the marriage takes place for the growth in female participation in higher education to occur. Spousal behaviours are identified and categorized through the gender and development lens as either enablers or constraints to women’s empowerment and participation in higher education, and potential reasons for these behaviours surrounding gender relations are discussed.

scholarly journals What is engineering?

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Mel Chua
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Computer Engineering ◽  
First Semester ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Science Academy

Point of view:  I'm a contagiously enthusiastic hacker, scholar, and teacher with an industry background in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) communities. As a teenager at the Illinois Math and Science Academy, I loved storytelling and cinematography and wanted to major in the arts. That wasn't an option for my family of immigrants, so I took up electrical and computer engineering at Olin College (BS), where I arrived thinking that a breadboard was for baking (it's for electronics). I am Deaf and have always been a strong visual thinker; this piece was written and drawn during my first semester as a PhD student in engineering education at Purdue University. I’m intrigued by how multiple interacting curricular cultures in higher education can deconstruct our notions of engineering, education, and just about everything else. Value: This work is a playful contribution to engineering education ontologies (as a subset of philosophy), which explores questions of reality and being - what "is." It challenges the high consensus culture of engineering, especially the tendency to seek clearly defined and fixed meanings for terms. In this case, the notion of "engineering" itself is called into question. It also explores what graphical/non-textual scholarship in and about higher education might look like. Summary:  This graphic essay was made when I was a first-semester engineering education graduate student. This past self was naive regarding "scholarly" and "academic" writing conventions, and frustrated both by the limitations of text as a standalone medium and the engineering disciplinary tendency to seek clearly defined and fixed meanings for terms rather than exploring their possibilities. I am now a slightly more seasoned scholar seven years down the line with a desire to engage in discussion and revision of the piece. Note to readers:  This document consists of a comic submission which is meant to be experienced visually: What is Engineering?. Each page of the comic is presented separately here, followed by text descriptions for that page. Text descriptions are provided for acces.

scholarly journals Genuine students as partners: How a Teaching Assistant Consultant program put students as partners into practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-114
Author(s):  
Gerry Gourlay ◽  
Cynthia Korpan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Teaching Assistants ◽  
Teaching Assistant ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Student Leader ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education ◽  
Do So

In this case study, a graduate student and staff member show how an institution wide program, aimed at enhancing learning and teaching in higher education, exemplifies Matthews’s (2017) “Five Propositions for Genuine Students as Partners Practice” at the department level. To do so, we describe the five propositions in relation to the Teaching Assistant Consultant (TAC) program that positions a graduate student leader in each department to support new Teaching Assistants (TAs). Through comparison, we look at how the program is inclusive, exhibits strong power-sharing capabilities through continual reflection and conversation, is ethical, and is strongly transformative.

scholarly journals LEARNING THE “LANGUAGE” OF MOTHERHOOD AS INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-344
Author(s):  
Kuo Zhang
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Poetic Inquiry ◽  
Student Mothers ◽  
International Graduate ◽  
Embodied Language ◽  
International Graduate Student ◽  
The U.S

As international students seek degrees in U.S. institutions of higher education, their role as students is forefronted and recognizable by faculty and peers. However, what often remains invisible are international students' social and personal experiences during academic study abroad. Although there is a great deal of feminist research on academic identity and motherhood, almost nothing has been written regarding the experiences of international women who become mothers while pursuing graduate studies in the U.S. This poetic ethnographic study focuses on the lived experiences of eleven international graduate student first-time mothers from Chinese mainland and Taiwan who became new mothers during their programs of study in the U.S., especially how they kept learning their ongoing, dynamic, multifaceted, and embodied “language” of motherhood through various kinds of social interactions, and among divergent practices, beliefs, and cultures. This article explores how poetic inquiry can contribute to the understanding of international graduate student mothers’ experiences as a social, cultural, and educational phenomenon. This article also discusses the issues of ethics and self-reflexivity of conducting poetic inquiry research.

scholarly journals Creating A Model For Graduate Student Inclusion And Success

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene M. Duranczyk ◽  
Jennifer Franko ◽  
Shade Osifuye ◽  
Amy Barton ◽  
Jeanne L. Higbee
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Postsecondary Faculty ◽  
Students First ◽  
Faculty And Staff ◽  
Critical Aspects

Mentoring and advising are critical aspects of the graduate student experience, and can have a significant impact on the professional lives of future postsecondary faculty and staff and a rippling effect throughout higher education and the global economy. This paper describes the process a new department undertook to create a graduate program that puts the inclusion and success of students first.

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