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Reflections on Learning, Life and Work

Completing Doctoral Studies in Mid and Later Life and Career

Editors:

  1. Maureen Ryan

    1. Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Seeking Time Out to Reflect in Doctoral Study

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Researching Culture, Realising Self

      • Lynda Achren
      Pages 3-15

    3. Australia and September 11

      • Ben Anwyl
      Pages 17-23

    5. From the Ridiculous to the Sublime

      • Megan Evans
      Pages 39-50

  3. The Influence of Life Experience on Research Topic Selection

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. Through Music to Postgraduate Study

      • Sue Buchan
      Pages 53-65

    3. The Call to Individuation

      • Margi Gibb
      Pages 67-74

    4. Battles, Bed and the Ph.D.

      • Julie Gross Mcadam
      Pages 75-85

    5. Living Knowledge to the Edge

      • Neil Hooley
      Pages 87-98

    6. Reframing My Landscape

      • Jennifer Kamp
      Pages 99-113

    7. Pamela Anderson, Durer and Herrenvolk

      • Loy Lichtman
      Pages 115-131

    8. A Precarious Path...With Heart

      • Sue Erica Smith
      Pages 133-145

  4. The Influence of Work Experience on Research Topic Selection

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. So You Think You Will Pursue a Ph.D.

      • Berise Heasly
      Pages 149-152

    3. Muted Voices

      • Tanya Paterson
      Pages 153-163

    4. Swimming With Piranha

      • Kerry Ryan
      Pages 165-182

    5. Life, Research and a Baby

      • Sarah Tartakover
      Pages 183-194

    6. Why I Became a Teacher Activist

      • Jo Williams
      Pages 195-206
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About this book

This book records the stories of doctoral study experiences of the twenty-two writers. These research degree experiences are embedded in the lives and careers of the writers and the twenty-two distinctive projects draw from those individual lives and careers. The authors write about meeting the continuing demands of older and younger family members and of their struggles with ill health and work place demands while working through their studies. There is also the joy of coming to see themselves and being seen as research scholars and supporting and celebrating with others as they move through candidature proposals and ethics applications to graduation. Apart from the stories that bring the writers to their particular projects and that colour their individual journeys, storying methodology is most often selected for the research, all of which is undertaken within the arts, humanities and education. Phenomenology, narrative, ethnography are central to most of the studies and the detailed accounts of each research topic, methods and outcomes locate each of the research projects in rich bodies of knowledge. Valued writers and readers in these fields, Mary Beattie and Elaine Martin have read each reflection and provided in turn a foreword and an afterword which bookend the volume and further enrich these reflections on learning, life and work.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Maureen Ryan

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reflections on Learning, Life and Work

  • Book Subtitle: Completing Doctoral Studies in Mid and Later Life and Career

  • Editors: Maureen Ryan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-025-5

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-025-5Published: 26 October 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 284

  • Topics: Education, general

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