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OverviewWhen The Ph.D. Trap was first published in 1987, it hit academe like a bombshell. Wilfred Cude dared to pull back the veil of graduate school life to expose the harsh realities of modern advanced study. Using statistics, academic history, and diverse intellectual traditions, Cude revealed the Ph.D. program in most disciplines to be savage, mechanical, and cruel - an exploitative construct that often frustrates legitimate intellectual inquiry, shatters viable career expectations, and mangles personal and professional relations. In the years since, an outpouring of books, articles, and statistical data delineating serious weaknesses in contemporary higher education has provided a wealth of evidence supporting Cude's original thesis. The Ph.D. Trap Revisited amplifies Cude's arguments, with a synthesis and analysis of new data and information. Topics examined include the grad school numbers game, the rogue professor, muddles in methodology, the perils of apprenticeship, ethics and economics, existing alternatives, and recommendations for change. In an age of increasingly unchecked proliferation of the Ph.D. degree throughout academic institutions in the western world, Cude's work is a tonic. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Wilfred CudePublisher: Dundurn Group Ltd Imprint: Dundurn Group Ltd Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9781550023459ISBN 10: 1550023454 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 16 November 2000 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsCude's writing is engaging throughout, and even his harshest comments are phrased elegantly. -- Brian Martin -- Higher Education Review, Jan 2002 The sound you hear as you read his book is not the hammering of yet another nail into our coffin. He's one of us. It's a wake-up call, a heads-up message to ostriches unaware that they may be in vulnerable position. We would do well to heed it. -- W. Lambert Gardiner -- Books in Canada, July 2002 The sound you hear as you read his book is not the hammering of yet another nail into our coffin. He's one of us. It's a wake-up call, a heads-up message to ostriches unaware that they may be in vulnerable position. We would do well to heed it. Cude's writing is engaging throughout, and even his harshest comments are phrased elegantly. -- Brian Martin -- Higher Education Review, 2002 The sound you hear as you read his book is not the hammering of yet another nail into our coffin. He's one of us. It's a wake-up call, a heads-up message to ostriches unaware that they may be in vulnerable position. We would do well to heed it. -- W. Lambert Gardiner -- Books in Canada, 20020701 Author InformationWilfred Cude is the author of A Due Sense of Differences, The PhD Trap, and numerous scholarly articles on English literature, Canadian history, critical methodology, and educational traditions. He has lectured at colleges and universities across the country. He lives in rural Cape Breton. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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