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Direct linkRobertson, Margaret J. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
This article raises two inter-related issues: firstly there is a correlation between the needs of doctoral students that are strongly related to age and career stage; and secondly, because these needs differ according to their demographic, the current discourse of developing work-readiness skills of doctoral students is misplaced for the growing…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Student Needs, Age Differences
McGrath, Lisa; Kaufhold, Kathrin – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
Academic Literacies and English for Specific Purposes perspectives on the teaching of academic writing tend to be positioned as dichotomous and ideologically incompatible. Nonetheless, recent studies have called for the integration of these two perspectives in the design of writing programmes in order to meet the needs of students in the…
Descriptors: Literacy, English for Academic Purposes, Workshops, Anthropology
Naidoo, Devika – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
Against the background of vast changes in doctoral education and the emergence of non-traditional doctoral programmes, this paper investigates the habitus of non-traditional PhD students at a South African university. Bourdieu's conceptual tool of habitus informed the study. In-depth and open-ended interviews were conducted with 10 non-traditional…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Graduate Students, Interviews, Social Capital
Chan, Elaine; Heaton, Ruth M.; Swidler, Stephen A.; Wunder, Susan – Planning and Changing, 2013
Through analyses of three dissertations completed by graduates of our Carnegie Project for the Education Doctorate-influenced program, this article offers insights into both the doctoral students' inquiries into their problems of practice and their faculty advisors' roles and expectations for them. Studying student dissertations provided the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Education Majors, Graduate Students, Doctoral Dissertations
Hopwood, Nick – Studies in Continuing Education, 2010
Existing literature suggests that doctoral students' learning and experience are significantly influenced by their relationships with a wide range of people within and beyond academic settings. However, there has been little theoretical work focused on these issues, and questions of agency in doctoral study are in need of further attention. This…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Doctoral Programs, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
Brahme, Maria E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Librarians have historically been responsible for the organization and management of the stores of human knowledge, and for ensuring information literacy among researchers. In recent years, however, librarians have become disintermediated (Boyd-Byrnes & Rosenthal,2005) or, removed from, researchers and the research process for a variety of…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Doctoral Programs, Distance Education, Computer Uses in Education
