1st Edition
Global Perspectives on Graduate and Doctoral Education International Case Studies
This book provides a framework for analysis and reviews the changing landscape of doctoral education across fourteen global case studies before providing conclusions and recommendations for further research and development.
Traditionally, doctoral education was a matter of the talented few being apprenticed to learn how to research from masters in their discipline. The work was conducted in private in spaces far removed from normal teaching or industry activities. The only requirement for academic staff to supervise or to examine candidates was to be research active. Many candidates dropped out during their studies. For those who persisted, their doctoral research could take years to complete, and most graduates went on to academic careers. But in recent decades, several changes have transformed doctoral education almost beyond recognition. The chapters in this book present an analysis of graduate and doctoral education globally aligned with current developments and research, provide an overall framework for the discussion at the international level of changes in doctoral education, examine how changes have been manifested in a sample of case studies of major doctoral providers from across the globe, and offer conclusions about the changing graduate and doctoral landscape with suggestions for future research.
This volume will be of interest to all those engaged in doctoral education, including doctoral candidates, their supervisors, and deans and administrators of graduate research. It was originally published as a special issue of Innovations in Education and Teaching International.
Introduction: Ongoing developments in doctoral education
Stan Taylor, Karri A. Holley, and Margaret Kiley
1. The changing landscape of doctoral education: A framework for analysis and introduction to the Special Issue
Stan Taylor
2. COVID-19 and doctoral education in Australia
Nigel Palmer and Margaret Kiley
3. Doctorate education in Chile: The race to increase the production of doctorate holders and the obsession of quantifying quality
Roxana Chiappa and Julio Labraña
4. China: Quality assurance, internationalization, doctoral employment and COVID-19
Shuhua Chen
5. Transitions in the French doctorate
Pierre Bateaux
6. International developments in doctoral education: A case study of Germany
Barbara M. Kehm
7. Recent trends in doctoral education in India
Naravana Jayaram
8. International developments in Iranian higher education and its implications for doctoral education
Reza Hemmati
9.The quality of admissions to Russian doctoral programmes during the COVID-19 pandemic
Natalia Maloshonok, Svetlana Zhuchkova, Saule Bekova and Evgeniy Terentev
10. Complex legacies and future prospects: Conceptualising changes in South African doctoral education
Nompilo Tshuma and Eli Bitzer
11. Doctoral education in Korea: The call for reinvention in a knowledge-based society
Su Youn Byoun
12. Doctoral trends development in Spain: From academic to professional paths
Montserrat Castelló, Marina García-Morante, Laura Díaz, Anna Sala-Bubaré and Crista Weise
13. International developments in doctoral education: The case of Turkiye
Gokce Gokalp
14. The changing landscape of doctoral education in the UK
Stan Taylor and Gina Wisker
15. Perspectives on doctoral education in the United States: Challenges and paths forward
Karri A. Holley
16. The changing landscape of doctoral education: Conclusions and further research
Karri A. Holley, Stan Taylor and Margaret Kiley
Biography
Stan Taylor was formerly Director of the Centre for Academic and Researcher Development at Durham University (UK) where he is an Honorary Professor in the School of Education. He has published widely on doctoral supervision and education and authored the UK Council for Graduate Education's Good Supervisory Practice Framework.
Karri A. Holley is Professor of Higher Education at The University of Alabama (USA). She has published widely on issues related to graduate and doctoral education as well as interdisciplinary practice and qualitative inquiry. She is a former editor of Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education.
Margaret Kiley has an adjunct position at the Australian National University. For many years, her research and teaching interests have been in the education of future researchers. She has worked in further and higher education in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia and the UK, and facilitated workshops in a number of countries.
