The PhD and the Autonomous Self: gender, rationality and postgraduate pedagogy

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/713696141 (i can email the pdf around on request)

Although referring specifically to an Australian context, I think there is crossover to higher ed. practices in this other commonwealth nation.

Also, although the emphasis is on PhD supervisory relations, i think the critique of masculinity and patriarchy is useful to our interests about distinct forms of knowledge production, e.g. through peer-learning around classroom pedagogy (Arts TA).

More might be said, however, about other ways of knowing, such as the role of indigenous theory and practice, particularly since the authors are valuing shifts in learning that engage those outside of the academy.

in the end, they seem a little vague on this front, and don't detail enough (to my mind) of the practice of what they're talking about; what it might "look like," in short.

nevertheless, the critique of Kant, Rousseau and others is very useful in and of itself.

Would love comments on the article or on my thoughts here. Please post them!