PiE 2011 Special issue 3
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Editorial: what could second-generation research on the doctorate be like?
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Editorial introduction: doctoral research in South Africa - research and policy
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Doctoral discourses in South Africa
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)In the South African context, three doctoral discourses are heard, each with their own assumptions about the purpose of doctoral education and the kinds of people who undertake doctoral study, and with their own implications ... -
Emergent frameworks of research teaching and learning in a cohort-based doctoral programme
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)This article argues that alternate models of doctoral research teaching and learning pedagogy could address the challenge of under-productivity of doctoral graduands in the South African higher education system. Present ... -
Research on doctoral education in South Africa against the silhouette of its meteoric rise in international higher education research
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)The aim of this article is to survey the international literature on doctoral education from a South African perspective. A colossal amount of published research on doctoral education abroad has accumulated in recent years, ... -
A networked pathway to the PhD: the African-Norwegian case of Productive Learning Cultures
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)How do PhD students become socialised into the professional world of academic work? This article pays attention to a ‘networked’ support pathway towards a PhD. The network constitutes an international research collaboration ... -
Pipelines or pipe dreams? PhD production and other matters in a South African Dental Research Institute 1954-2006
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)This retrospective study documents the Masters and PhD training of 131 Dental Research Institute (DRI) postgraduates (1954-2006) to establish demographics, throughput and research outcomes for future PhD pipeline strategies ... -
The quality of doctoral education in South Africa: a question of significance
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)One of the underlying concerns in the Study Panel on the South African PhD, a large-scale, overview investigation of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), was the negative consequences of signalling the need for ... -
Student experiences of the PhD cohort model: working within or outside communities of practice?
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)The Collaborative Cohort Model (CCM) of higher degrees supervision is gaining increasing popularity internationally and, in some contexts, replacing the conventional Apprentice Master Model (AMM). Among the motivations ... -
Evolution of doctoral education in Pakistan: challenges and successes of doctoral students of education in a public sector university of Pakistan
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)This paper presents a part of the findings from a larger study undertaken to explore the experience of graduate students in education in Pakistan. Analysis of a smaller slice of data collected from students who were enrolled ... -
Student mobility and doctoral education in South Africa
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)This article analyses doctoral education programmes in South Africa with a particular focus on student mobility. It investigates pull and push factors as a conceptual framework, arguing that the patterns of student mobility ... -
Obstacles to success – doctoral student attrition in South Africa
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)The article explores doctoral attrition in South Africa, investigating and comparing the attributions of attrition of doctoral students and PhD programme leaders. The article is based on secondary data analysis of two large ... -
Doctoral production in South Africa: statistics, challenges and responses
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)The past few years have witnessed new interest in doctoral production in South Africa. In the first section of the article, it is argued that this new interest has its roots in various higher education policy documents ... -
What we know about the dramatic increase in PhD degrees and the reform of doctoral education worldwide: implications for South Africa
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)Theories of the “knowledge economy” view knowledge, and particularly new knowledge, as a critical resource to enhance a nation’s economic growth. Governments around the world have invested in doctoral education expansion. ...
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