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- Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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A General Approach: Comprehensive Analysis of Doctoral Programs
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Rethinking the Concept of Evaluation and Programmatic Coherence
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Beyond Practice: The Doctoral Degree Beyond the Discipline, Subject, and Field
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The Implications of Individual Identity Within the Doctorate: Individual Perspectives on Negotiating the Doctoral Experience
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About this book
This book attempts to re-imagine the purpose of the doctorate, which has historically been used to prepare leaders who will work to improve the sciences (social and physical), humanities, and professions, while articulating curriculum as a living shape where students, faculty, and institution melded in a humanist and creative process. This idea, seriously eroded by the explosion in doctoral degrees between the early 1970s (20,000 doctorate per year) and last year (to over 46,000)—and an explosion in doctoral and research universities that has created a crossroads for the doctorate in America. We believe the value of a doctorate is Intellectual Capital, and are particularly interested in encouraging reflection as an important characteristic of a successful quality doctoral program. We posit that a “good doctoral” experience fosters active engagement in reflection on all elements of our work—the intellectual, advisory, and pedagogical work of faculty, curricular opportunities, as well as the intellectual of the doctoral candidates through an avocation that drives research and theory in our fields. Specific issues raised in this edited volume include comprehensive analysis of programs, rethinking evaluation and programmatic coherence, doctoral degrees beyond the discipline, subject, and field, and implications of individual identity. Along with authors’ chapters, we paid attention to encourage reflection as an important characteristic of a quality doctoral program; positing that “good doctoral” experiences foster active engagement in reflection on all elements of the doctoral experience, including program and curricular issues, personal relationships, work, and the creation of a community of scholars.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Higher Education and Human Capital: Re/thinking the Doctorate in America
Editors: David M. Callejo Pérez, Stephen M. Fain, Judith J. Slater
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-418-8
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6091-418-8Published: 21 October 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 225
Topics: Higher Education
