Someone PLEASE tell me why having "Dr." in front of your name is worth it?
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE grad school, but a lot of folks ask their students not to say "Dr." and while I think I understand...
Why?
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @MalloryAHoffman, @MiaMBloom ja
can you restate the question?
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @MilHist_Lee, @MiaMBloom ja
Yes. Too much wine, not going to lie. Why do instructors/professors insist on students calling them "Dr. BLANK" and others maybe prefer "Insert first name here" even when they are the same status? I'm talking about in an undergrad context. Thanks in advance!
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @MalloryAHoffman, @MilHist_Lee ja
Too much wine, or not enough wine?
For my part, with (undergraduate) students I prefer Dr. <Lastname>. I think preferences here often come down to attitudes about hierarchy and status distinction.2 vastausta 0 uudelleentwiittausta 2 tykkäystä -
Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux, @MalloryAHoffman ja
Some instructors prefer to try to flatten the relationship by avoiding titles which put emphasis on the difference. And certainly, were I teaching graduate students (ah, happy dreams) I'd see the sense in that. Graduate students are junior colleagues.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux, @MalloryAHoffman ja
But I find in undergraduate teaching (and also with the general public on matters where my degree pertains) the distinction that 'Dr.' provides is valuable. After all, the entire reason I am the teacher and they are the students is that I am the Dr. and they are not.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux, @MalloryAHoffman ja
And I don't see a good reason, myself, to 'play pretend' that we are 'all learning together' when that isn't really what we are generally doing. Honestly, the illusion of a non-hierarchical class can hardly survive the first exam anyway.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux, @MalloryAHoffman ja
I'm also aware that the whole bit about titles is different for balding white men (read: me) than everyone else. It is *easy* for white male instructors to dispense with titles, because society accords us respect anyway.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux, @MalloryAHoffman ja
And so in some ways I think that the folks who drop Dr. - in my own experience, almost universally white male instructors - are unintentionally (to be clear, I think they have good motives) benefiting from a privilege their non-white or non-male colleagues do not have.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux, @MalloryAHoffman ja
Consequently - if I can sound *truly* out of touch - maintaining some vestige of the 'dignity of the degree' and using the title with undergraduates might help give cover to non-white and non-male instructors to do the same as a way of asserting their authority in the classroom.
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In that it lets all of us - the community of PhD-havers - define our authority formally and collectively, in a way that everyone can take part in, rather than falling back on informal social status expectations which I may benefit from, but my colleagues may not.
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