| Description |
xviii, 450 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Preparing stewards of the discipline / Chris M. Golde -- Who should do what : implications for institutional and national leaders / Kenneth Prewitt -- Vectors of change / David Damrosch -- Heeding the voices of graduate students and postdocs / Crispin Taylor -- Unmasking uncertainties and embracing contradictions : graduate education in the sciences / Yehuda Elkana -- Developing scholars and professionals : the case of mathematics / Hyman Bass -- A time for change? The mathematics doctorate / Tony F. Chan -- Time for reform? / Alvin L. Kwiram -- Developing breadth and depth of knowledge : the doctorate in chemistry / Ronald Breslow -- Training future leaders / Angelica M. Stacy -- Maintaining vitality through change : graduate education in neuroscience / Zach W. Hall -- The challenges of multidisciplinarity : neuroscience and the doctorate / Steven E. Hyman -- Stewards of a field, stewards of an enterprise : the doctorate in education / Virginia Richardson -- Toward a future as rich as our past / David C. Berliner -- Expanding the domain of history / Thomas Bender -- Historians, the historical forces they have fostered, and the doctorate in history / Joybe Appleby -- Getting ready to do history / William Cronon -- Rethinking the Ph.D. in English / Andrea Abernethy Lunsford -- Toward a new consensus : the Ph.D. in English / Gerald Graff -- Words and responsibilities : graduate eduation and the humanities / Catharine R. Stimpson -- The questions in the back of the book / George E. Walker |
| Summary |
"Envisioning the Future of Doctoral Education is a collection of essays commissioned for the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate. The question posed to the essayists in this volume was "If you could start de novo, what would be the best way to structure doctoral education in your field to prepare stewards of the discipline?" The authors of the essays are respected thinkers, researchers, and scholars who are experienced with and thoughtful about doctoral education." "Each of the book's essayists considers the goals and purposes of doctoral education in their particular field and offer new and invigorating ideas about the doctorate. Taken together, the essays in the volume provide opportunities to compare and contrast doctoral education among the disciplines. The essays provide ideas for fruitful practice, a perspective on doctoral education as a larger enterprise, and visions of what is possible for the future."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Doctor of philosophy degree.
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Universities and colleges -- United States -- Graduate work.
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| Author |
Walker, George E.
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| LC no. |
2005028350 |
| ISBN |
0787982350 hardback |
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