Reshaping Doctoral Education : International Approaches and Pedagogies

As the number of doctoral students continues to rise, this book examines the context of the doctorate in modern times and the new challenges that it faces. The authors reassess what once was considered the basics of a doctoral curriculum to reshape the doctoral elements of research design and pedagogy and curriculum. Drawing on research from around the world the individual authors contribute to a previously under-represented focus on theorising the emerging practices of doctoral education and the shape of change in this arena. Key aspects discussed by contributors from UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, China, South Africa, Sweden and Denmark include:

• changing doctoral education
• the imperative for principled accounts of doctoral pedagogies
• the importance of disciplinary specificity
• the relationship between pedagogy and knowledge generation
• and issues of transdisciplinary.

Broad in scope it provides rich accounts of pedagogical practices within a range of forms of doctoral systems in different disciplines, professional fields and geographical locations.

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.