Socialization Reciprocity: Challenging Deficit Views in the Preparation of International Future Faculty

• In Event: Hilton Roundtable 22
  In Roundtable Session: Roundtable Session 3: Graduate and Postdoctoral Education Across the Disciplines SIG

Abstract

Despite efforts to develop programs that apprentice graduate students into teaching, research, and service responsibilities in a variety of context, PFF models tend to foster the transmittal of information and adopt a static view of socialization. International graduate students, in particular, encounter assumptions of their cultural, linguistic or pedagogical knowledge as being deficient. We used a grounded theory methodology to analyze international graduate students’ characterizations of their participation in a Cultures and Languages across the Curriculum program. We propose socialization reciprocity—mutually beneficial exchanges in which every member of a community is simultaneously transformed and transforms the values, skills, and habits of the community—to differentiate the experiences of participating international graduate students from those described in previous research.

Authors

• José Martínez Hinestroza, Texas State University

• India C. Plough, Michigan State University