GGIS Colloquium | Who learns about graduate school and how? Knowledge transfer and the social reproduction of the discipline
- Event Type
- Seminar/Symposium
- Sponsor
- Department of Geography & GIS
- Location
- 2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom
- Date
- Apr 18, 2025 3:00 pm
- Speaker
- Dr. Reecia Orzeck, Associate Professor of Geography, Illinois State University
- Cost
- This talk is free and open to the public with a virtual option.
- Registration
- Zoom RSVP
- Contact
- UIUC Geography & GIS
- geography@illinois.edu
- Views
- 147
Scholars of higher education now recognize that succeeding as a student requires having or acquiring a good deal of tacit knowledge about college expectations and how to meet them. Indeed, advocates of equity-minded pedagogies have begun to encourage university instructors to consider the transparency and clarity of their assessments as a way of ensuring that students from less privileged backgrounds are not dealing with a hidden curriculum. The project described in this paper is motivated by a desire to understand whether there is a hidden curriculum that governs the transition between undergraduate and graduate school in Geography in particular, and if so, how students secure the information and mentoring they need to successfully apply to graduate school in the discipline.