Disciplines and doctorates / by Sharon Parry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parry, Sharon.

Series:

Higher education dynamics ; v. 16.

Higher education dynamics ; v. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Degrees, Academic.

Universities and colleges--Graduate work.

Universities and colleges.

Universities and colleges--Australia--Graduate work.

Australia.

Physical Description:

xiii, 162 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer, 2007.

Summary:

Attainment of a research doctorate is a pinnacle of academic achievement. In any national system, the PhD demonstrates the ability to produce original, significant and important knowledge in a specialised field. Its attainment signifies the capacity to produce and reproduce knowledge at the most advanced level. 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.

Contents:

Part 1 Knowledge-Making in Doctoral Programs

Chapter 2 Doctoral Study and Disciplinary Learning 15

Chapter 3 Socialisation 25

Part 2 Learning in Knowledge-Making Cultures

Chapter 4 Induction Processes 39

Chapter 5 Exploring the Research Environment 53

Chapter 6 Coping in the Arena 73

Chapter 7 Linguistic Acceptability 95

Part 3 Foundations and New Horizons

Chapter 8 Achieving Socialisation 119

Chapter 9 Improving the Doctoral Experience 137.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781402053115

1402053126

OCLC:

76873767

Publisher Number:

9781402053115