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Ideal for Whom? A Cultural Analysis of Ideal Worker Norms in Higher Education and Student Affairs Graduate Programs
Author(s) -
Sallee Margaret W.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
new directions for higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0741
pISSN - 0271-0560
DOI - 10.1002/he.20209
Subject(s) - student affairs , ideal (ethics) , higher education , norm (philosophy) , graduate students , sociology , pedagogy , psychology , public relations , political science , law
This chapter explores the consequences of ideal worker norms for graduate student‐parents in higher education and student affairs programs. Using Schein's (2004) levels of culture as a conceptual lens, this chapter considers the ways that programmatic structures and interactions with faculty and peers reflect and reproduce a culture across graduate programs that privileges the norm of the always‐working and engaged student, thereby creating barriers to full participation for students with children.