The Formation of Scholars

Rethinking Doctoral Education for the Twenty-First Century

Pat Hutchings author Laura Jones author George E Walker author Chris M Golde author Andrea Conklin Bueschel author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc

Published:8th Feb '08

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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.

The book shows how doctoral education has evolved, how graduate programs take a hard look at themselves, and the specific change practices attempted by participating departments… Together, the chapters offer guidelines for surviving and thriving as a college teacher. (The Journal of Continuing Higher Ed, 06/08)

ISBN: 9780470197431

Dimensions: 235mm x 160mm x 21mm

Weight: 485g

256 pages