Overview
- Reports the findings from a large-scale empirical investigation centred around the nature of knowledge-making and knowledge in a wide range of academic disciplines
- Gives voice to the experiences of more than one hundred supervisors and as many doctoral candidates who detail what they are learning, how they are learning it, and what kinds of intellectual and social issues they face in their individual research settings
- Provides an analysis of 26 doctoral theses representing a wide range of fields of knowledge and academic disciplines, accounting for conventions for citation and acknowledgement, reporting structures, linguistic conventions governing the nature of argument and more
- Offers a well-informed explanation of cognitive and social barriers to success among doctoral candidates and shows why these differ markedly across academic disciplines
- Accounts for the changing nature of doctoral degrees and their markets in the global marketplace, and the implications for doctoral candidates, supervisors and institutions
Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 16)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Knowledge-Making in Doctoral Programs
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Learning in Knowledge-Making Cultures
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Foundations and New Horizons
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Back Matter
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About this book
Advice about how to achieve a PhD usually falls short of relevance because the ways of creating and reporting knowledge differ dramatically from one disciplinary field and specialisation to another. Yet supervisors and doctoral candidates alike know that there are certain protocols or parameters, often inexplicit in nature, that govern its achievement and that need to be mastered. This book sets out to explore the nature of these protocols and parameters, linking them to the cognate characteristics of fields of knowledge and to social conventions constraining how new knowledge is reported.
‘Disciplines and Doctorates’ provides a detailed analysis of the experience of learning to make new knowledge at the level of the research doctorate. It does so from the perspectives of both supervisors and candidates across a range of disciplines in different university settings. It draws principally upon a very large-scale, empirical investigation at a number of Australian universities. It also provides a comparative account of doctoral study in different national systems.
Reviews
"This book can be counted as making a significant contribution to the scholarly literature on postgraduate education. It is however more than that: individual doctoral students and supervisors as well as University Graduate Schools will be able to benefit from the book’s practical advice, and it also promises to be a valuable addition to courses on Teaching and Learning.
A striking feature of the book is the use of quotations from numerous interviews. The author uses these skilfully to illustrate her analysis, bringing added life to an already well written and readable text." Professor Tony Becher
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disciplines and Doctorates
Authors: Sharon Parry
Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5312-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5311-5Published: 09 November 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7335-8Published: 25 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5312-2Published: 03 June 2007
Series ISSN: 1571-0378
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 164
Topics: Higher Education, Science Education, Educational Philosophy