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March 29, 2017
The Formation of Scholars: Rethinking Doctoral Education for the Twenty-First Century
- Author
- Walker, George E., Chris M. Golde, Laura Jones, Andrea Conklin Bueschel, Pat Hutchings
- Publisher
- Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
- ISBN
- 9780470197431
- Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Foreword by Lee S. Shulman
ch. 1. Moving Doctoral Education into the Future
ch. 2. Setting the Stage for Change
ch. 3. Talking About Purpose: Mirrors, Lenses, and Windows
ch. 4. From Experience to Expertise: Principles of Powerful Formation
ch. 5. Apprenticeship Reconsidered
ch. 6. Creating and Sustaining Intellectual Community
ch. 7. A Call to Action
Appendix A: Summary Description of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate
Appendix B: List of Participating Departments
Appendix C: Overview of the Surveys
Appendix D: Graduate Student Survey
Appendix E: Graduate Faculty Survey
References
Name Index
Subject Index
This groundbreaking book explores the current state of doctoral education in the United States and offers a plan for increasing the effectiveness of doctoral education. Programs must grapple with questions of purpose. The authors examine practices and elements of doctoral programs and show how they can be made more powerful by relying on principles of progressive development, integration, and collaboration. They challenge the traditional apprenticeship model and offer an alternative in which students learn while apprenticing with several faculty members. The authors persuasively argue that creating intellectual community is essential for high-quality graduate education in every department. Knowledge-centered, multigenerational communities foster the development of new ideas and encourage intellectual risk taking. (From the Publisher)