Disciplines and Doctorates
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
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Disciplines and Doctorates
DISCIPLINES AND DOCTORATES
HIGHER EDUCATION DYNAMICS VOLUME 16 Series Editors Peter Maassen, University of Oslo, Norway, and University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Johan Muller, Graduate School of Humanities, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa Editorial Board Alberto Amaral, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Akira Arimoto, Hiroshima University, Japan Nico Cloete, CHET, Pretoria, South Africa David Dill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Jürgen Enders, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Patricia Gumport, Stanford University, USA Mary Henkel, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom Glenn Jones, University of Toronto, Canada
SCOPE OF THE SERIES Higher Education Dynamics is a bookseries intending to study adaptation processes and their outcomes in higher education at all relevant levels. In addition it wants to examine the way interactions between these levels affect adaptation processes.It aims at applying general social science concepts and theories as well as testing theories in the field of higher education research. It wants to do so in a manner that is of relevance to all those professionally involved in higher education, be it as ministers, policy-makers, politicians, institutional leaders or administrators, higher education researchers, members of the academic staff of universities and colleges, or students. It will include both mature and developing systems of higher education, covering public as well as private institutions.
The titles published in the series are listed at the end of this volume.
Disciplines and Doctorates By Sharon Parry Southern Cross University, NSW, Australia
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN-10 1-4020-5311-8 (HB) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-5311-5(HB) ISBN-10 1-4020-5312-6 (e-book) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-5312-2 (e-book) Published by Springer. P.O. Box 17. 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com
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This book is dedicated with love to Tony Becher, who gave me a place in his tribe, and taught me about the territory.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword TONY BECHER Acknowledgements Preface
ix xi xiii
PART 1: KNOWLEDGE-MAKING IN DOCTORAL PROGRAMS Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3
Introduction Doctoral Study and Disciplinary Learning Socialisation
3 15 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
Ling
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