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An essential handbook to the unwritten and often unspoken knowledge
and skills you need to succeed in grad school Some of the most
important things you need to know in order to succeed in graduate
school-like how to choose a good advisor, how to get funding for
your work, and whether to celebrate or cry when a journal tells you
to revise and resubmit an article-won't be covered in any class.
They are part of a hidden curriculum that you are just expected to
know or somehow learn on your own-or else. In this comprehensive
survival guide for grad school, Jessica McCrory Calarco walks you
through the secret knowledge and skills that are essential for
navigating every critical stage of the postgraduate experience,
from deciding whether to go to grad school in the first place to
finishing your degree and landing a job. An invaluable resource for
every prospective and current grad student in any discipline, A
Field Guide to Grad School will save you grief-and help you
thrive-in school and beyond. Provides invaluable advice about how
to: Choose and apply to a graduate program Stay on track in your
program Publish and promote your work Get the most out of
conferences Navigate the job market Balance teaching, research,
service, and life
Suppose you were given two qualitative studies: one is a piece of
empirically sound social science and the other, though interesting
and beautifully written, is not. How would you tell the
difference? Qualitative Literacy presents criteria to assess
qualitative research methods such as in-depth interviewing and
participant observation. Qualitative research is indispensable to
the study of inequality, poverty, education, public health,
immigration, the family, and criminal justice. Each of the hundreds
of ethnographic and interview studies published yearly on these
issues is scientifically either sound or unsound. This guide
provides social scientists, researchers, students, evaluators,
policy makers, and journalists with the tools needed to identify
and evaluate quality in field research.
In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that
the middle class has a negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on
five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco traces that
negotiated advantage from its origins at home to its consequences
at school. Through their parents' coaching, working-class students
learn to follow rules and work through problems independently.
Middle-class students learn to challenge rules and request
assistance, accommodations, and attention in excess of what is fair
or required. Teachers typically grant those requests, creating
advantages for middle-class students. Calarco concludes with
recommendations, advocating against deficit-oriented programs that
teach middle-class behaviors to working-class students. Those
programs ignore the value of working-class students'
resourcefulness, respect, and responsibility, and they do little to
prevent middle-class families from finding new opportunities to
negotiate advantages in school.
Suppose you were given two qualitative studies: one is a piece of
empirically sound social science and the other, though interesting
and beautifully written, is not. How would you tell the difference?
Qualitative Literacy presents criteria to assess qualitative
research methods such as in-depth interviewing and participant
observation. Qualitative research is indispensable to the study of
inequality, poverty, education, public health, immigration, the
family, and criminal justice. Each of the hundreds of ethnographic
and interview studies published yearly on these issues is
scientifically either sound or unsound. This guide provides social
scientists, researchers, students, evaluators, policy makers, and
journalists with the tools needed to identify and evaluate quality
in field research.
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