The Formation of Scholars: Rethinking Doctoral Education for the Twenty-First Century
The Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate was a five-year research project analyzing the current and projecting the future state of Ph.D. programs in US universities in five common disciplines. This report, authored by educators and an anthropologist, discusses such matters as talking about purpose, apprenticeship reconsidered, and creating and sustaining intellectual community. It is published for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which undertook the project. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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This groundbreaking book explores the current state of doctoral education in the United States and offers a plan for increasing the effectiveness of doctoral education. Programs must grapple with questions of purpose. The authors examine practices and elements of doctoral programs and show how they can be made more powerful by relying on principles of progressive development, integration, and collaboration. They challenge the traditional apprenticeship model and offer an alternative in which students learn while apprenticing with several faculty members. The authors persuasively argue that creating intellectual community is essential for high-quality graduate education in every department. Knowledge-centered, multigenerational communities foster the development of new ideas and encourage intellectual risk taking.
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