Focusing on the transformative journey of graduate students, this book explores the challenges and opportunities they face in academia. It delves into the emotional and intellectual growth that occurs during this pivotal period, emphasizing the importance of mentorship, community, and resilience. Through personal narratives and research, it highlights diverse experiences, aiming to foster a deeper understanding of the graduate experience and its impact on future careers.
The Critical Graduate Experience is a collection of scholarly reflections on
the possibilities of a new vision for critical studies. It is a remarkable
book that provides daring analyses from the vantage of the graduate student
experience. Drawing from individual knowledge and research, the authors invite
you to re-imagine education for justice.
And This Little Piggy Had Challenging the Dominant Discourse on Farmed Animals in Children’s Picturebooks is a fascinating critique of how "farm" animals are represented in children’s literature. Drawing from the fields of critical animal studies, critical discourse analysis, and animal behavior research, Janae Dimick questions the validity of these representations as environmental, societal, and other negative effects related to factory farming emerge. Questioning the socially constructed categories that humans use to classify which animals are used for consumption and which are meant for companionship, the book works to dismantle the "truth" of what children learn from the informational texts that are read to them in educational and home settings. The first of its kind, this book will make readers question their relationship with nonhuman animals and rethink how language creates narratives that ultimately act to the detriment of humans, nature, and animals. Students studying critical pedagogy, ecolinguistics, ecopedagogy, early childhood literacy, ecocriticism, bioethics, critical animal studies, environmental studies and education, and human-animal studies would benefit from reading this easily accessible text.
