创伤剧:竞争性受害者身份带来的麻烦

IF 1.3 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI:10.1177/14778785221143741
Robert S. Taylor
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在美国,写一篇大学申请论文已经成为高中生的一种成人仪式,随着招生过程的竞争越来越激烈,这一仪式的重要性也随着时间的推移而扩大。许多评论家注意到这些文章多年来令人不安的演变,越来越强调克服障碍和幸存创伤。我们是如何做到大学申请论文经常被竞争性的受害者展示的地步的?大学对申请人可能遭受的劣势有着可以理解的兴趣,但这种兴趣——以及申请人和他们的顾问对这种兴趣的认识——导致了一场“竞争到底”:为了在特定的竞争环境中茁壮成长(甚至生存),参与者被迫在一场胜人一筹的游戏中不断降低相关标准。在大学论文中,竞争是在高中四年级学生之间进行的,胜人一筹是一种不断升级的努力,目的是说服招生委员会认识到自己处于更大的劣势,而被降低的相关标准是诚实、隐私和尊严——或者我会这么说。正如我们将看到的,这种特殊的底层竞争给某些群体带来了不平等的成本,其影响远远超出了大学招生的范围。
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Trauma drama: The trouble with competitive victimhood
Writing a college-application essay has become a rite of passage for high-school seniors in the United States, one whose importance has expanded over time due to an increasingly competitive admissions process. Various commentators have noted the disturbing evolution of these essays over the years, with an ever-greater emphasis placed on obstacles overcome and traumas survived. How have we gotten to the point where college-application essays are all too frequently competitive-victimhood displays? Colleges have an understandable interest in the disadvantages their applicants may have suffered, but this interest – and the awareness of it among both applicants and their advisors – has led to a ‘race to the bottom’: in order to thrive (or even survive) in a particular competitive context, participants are forced to continuously lower relevant standards in a game of one-upmanship. With college essays, the competition is among high-school seniors for admission, the one-upmanship is an ever-escalating effort to persuade admission committees of one’s greater disadvantage, and the relevant standards being lowered are honesty, privacy, and dignity – or so I shall argue. As we will see, this particular race to the bottom imposes unequal costs on certain groups and has implications stretching well beyond collegiate admissions.
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期刊介绍: Theory and Research in Education, formerly known as The School Field, is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes theoretical, empirical and conjectural papers contributing to the development of educational theory, policy and practice.
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