ABSTRACT

The number of doctorates being awarded around the world has almost doubled over the last ten years, propelling it from a small elite enterprise into a large and ever growing international market. Within the context of increasing numbers of doctoral students this book examines the new doctorate environment and the challenges it is starting to face. Drawing on research from around the world the individual authors contribute to a previously under-represented focus of theorising the emerging practices of doctoral education and the shape of change in this arena.

Key aspects, expertly discussed by contributors from the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, China, South Africa, Sweden and Denmark include:

  • the changing nature of doctoral education
  • the need for systematic and principled accounts of doctoral pedagogies
  • the importance of disciplinary specificity
  • the relationship between pedagogy and knowledge generation
  • issues of transdisciplinarity.

Reshaping Doctoral Education provides rich accounts of traditional and more innovative pedagogical practices within a range of doctoral systems in different disciplines, professional fields and geographical locations, providing the reader with a trustworthy and scholarly platform from which to design the doctioral experience. It will prove an essential resource for anyone involved in doctorate studies, whether as students, supervisors, researchers, administrators, teachers or mentors.

part |95 pages

Old Basics/New Basics?

chapter |16 pages

Learning from the Literature

Some Pedagogies

chapter |14 pages

‘Team' Supervision

New Positionings in Doctoral Education Pedagogies

chapter |14 pages

Taking a Break

Doctoral Summer Schools as Transformative Pedagogies

chapter |13 pages

‘What's Going on Here?'

The Pedagogy of a Data Analysis Session

part |73 pages

Disciplinary and Transdisciplinary Pedagogies

chapter |14 pages

Designing (in) the PhD in Architecture

Knowledge, Discipline, Pedagogy

chapter |16 pages

Creative Tensions

Negotiating the Multiple Dimensions of a Transdisciplinary Doctorate

chapter |12 pages

Cognitive Apprenticeship

The Making of a Scientist

part |47 pages

International and Intercultural Pedagogical Spaces

chapter |14 pages

The Graduate School in the Sky

Emerging Pedagogies for an International Network for Doctoral Education and Research

chapter |17 pages

Ignorance and Pedagogies of Intellectual Equality

Internationalising Australian Doctoral Education Programs and Pedagogies Through Engaging Chinese Theoretical Tools

chapter |14 pages

Expanding Pedagogical Boundaries

Indigenous Students Undertaking Doctoral Education