The Routledge doctoral student's companion : getting to grips with research in education and the social sciences / edited by Pat Thomson and Melanie Walker.
Contributor(s): Thomson, Pat
| Walker, Melanie.
Material type: 
BookSeries: Companions for PhD and DPhil research.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010Description: xvii, 425 p. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9780415484114 (hardback); 0415484111 (hardback); 9780415484121 (pbk.); 041548412X (pbk.); 9780203852248 (ebook); 0203852249 (ebook).Other title: Doctoral student's companion.Subject(s): Education -- Study and teaching (Graduate) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Education -- Research -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Social sciences -- Research -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Social sciences -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Doctoral students -- Handbooks, manuals, etcDDC classification: 370.72 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In the contemporary world it is clear that the need to study beyond Masters Level is increasing in importance for a wide range of practitioners in diverse professional settings. Students across the world are choosing doctorates not only to become career academics, but to go beyond the academic arena, in order to make a personal and educational, as well as an economic investment, in their workplace careers and their lives. However for many doctoral students, both full-time and part-time, navigating the literature and key issues surrounding doctoral research can often be a challenge.
Bringing together contributions from key names in the international education arena, The Routledge Doctoral Student's Companion is a comprehensive guide to the literature surrounding doctorates, bringing together questions, challenges and solutions normally scattered over a wide range of texts. Accessible and wide-ranging, it covers all doctoral students need to know about:
what doctoral education means in contemporary practice forming an identity and knowledge as a doctoral student the big questions which run throughout doctoral practice becoming a researcher the skills needed to conduct research integrating oneself into a scholarly community.Offering an extensive and rounded guide to undertaking doctoral research in a single volume, this book is essential reading for all full-time and part-time doctoral students in education and related disciplines.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1: Introduction -- Part 2: Becoming and being a doctoral student -- Part 3: Coming to terms with the research practice -- Part 4: Making a contribution to knowledge.
This volume addresses a set of interlocking and overlapping big questions that 'sit' behind the plethora of doctoral advice texts and run through the practice of knowledge/identity work. This book is a comprehensive guide to the literature surrounding doctorates, bringing together questions, challenges and solutions.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Pat Thomson is Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of South Australia and a Visiting Professor at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.
Melanie Walker is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Nottingham, and is also Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.