Here's Smarty-Pants, Home for the Holidays

Autor/in	Patton, Stacey
Titel	Here's Smarty-Pants, Home for the Holidays
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, (2012) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Graduate Students; Holidays; Working Class; First Generation College Students; Family Relationship; Empathy; Family Attitudes; Parent Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Holiday; Feiertag; Ferien; Arbeiterklasse; Empathie; Elternverhalten
Abstract	The disconnect with family is not uncommon among graduate students home for the holidays or any other occasion, especially when they are first-generation graduate students or from a working-class background. Besides having to deal with academic demands, many graduate students from working-class backgrounds feel like strangers in their own families at this time of year. Tensions, misunderstandings, and awkwardness can leave them torn between cultures and identities, amid family members who are envious or angry that their loved one has gone off and come back changed. Many graduate students coping with those kinds of family dynamics are frustrated because they feel devalued and disrespected. Those dynamics are not unique to first-generation graduate students or those from working-class or minority backgrounds. Even if a student's parents are professionals, with bachelor's or even graduate degrees, sometimes there is still a disconnect. To bridge the gaps created by educational disparities within a family, graduate students should try to be more empathetic, say Ms. Covey, at Texas A&M, and Mr. Repak, of Grad Resources. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10