I just wanted to share this article as it may interest some of you. I had been a Ph.D student and I took quite a long "break" to raise my DS. Now that I am thinking about going back (
), I was looking for similar cases and I stumbled upon this article. Here is the abstract (click here for the full article:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nova.edu%2Fssss%2FQR%2FQR13-4%2Fgrenier.pdf&ei=1nXdT5nEDYX-8ATv8fnDCg&usg=AFQjCNFDhJBFzkCBj-w9BiDQ9aJmgOboAQ&sig2=E26skWUXMt5_guq6b2Y_-A )
No Margin for Error: A Study of Two Women Balancing Motherhood and Ph.D. Studies
Robin S. Grenier
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Morag C. Burke
University of Georgia, Atlanta Georgia
This cogenerative ethnography explored the lived experiences of two graduate students balancing Ph.D. studies and motherhood through McClusky’s (1963) Theory of Margin. Specifically, we asked ourselves: What impact does pregnancy have on personal and academic selves and how are multiple roles and responsibilities managed? Through an analysis of dialogues, artifacts, conceptual maps, and narratives, examples of internal and external load revealed the dynamic nature of the female experiences in graduate school. Excerpts from the data showed how roles, relationships, and experiences are characterized and how similar or different those examples were, given individual context. Implications of this research for students, faculty, and higher education policy are explored.
Key Words: Motherhood, Theory of Margin, Graduate School, and Cogenerative Ethnography
IMO, balancing motherhood and Ph.D. studies is quite challenging. Well, try now to balance early learning, motherhood and Ph.D.
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