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Interest, Burnout, and Drop-Out Intentions Among Finnish and Danish Humanities and Social Sciences PhD. Students 芬兰和丹麦人文社会科学博士的兴趣、倦怠和退学意向。学生
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.28945/4867
Solveig Cornér, K. Pyhältö, Jouni A Peltonen, Erika Löfström
Aim/Purpose: This study focused on advancing understanding of individual variations in doctoral students’ interest in their doctoral studies and how they related to experiences of burnout and drop-out intentions in Denmark and Finland. Background: Ph.D. students’ experiences of interest, burnout, and dropout intentions among Finnish and Danish Ph.D. students have not been researched before. Research with a person-centred approach exploring individual variations in students undertaking doctoral studies in two comparable but distinct socio-cultural contexts is limited. Methodology: This study uses exploratory factor analysis, K-means cluster analyses in combination with Pairwise comparisons, ANOVA, and Chi-square test. A total of 365 doctoral students in social sciences and humanities disciplines in Finland and Denmark responded to a Cross-Cultural Doctoral Experience Survey. Contribution: This study contributes understanding on individual variation in doctoral students’ interest across two socio-cultural contexts by identifying four personal interest profiles. The profiles were invariant across the contexts. The study also shed further light on the interrelation between the interest in research and the risk for suffering from burnout and entertaining dropout intentions. Findings: The interest profiles identified among the Ph.D. students were the High interest profile, the Moderate interest profile, the Developmental, research and impact interest profile, and the Development and impact interest profile. All interest profiles exhibited high levels of the developmental interest, however they varied especially in the weight given to instrumental and research interests. Ph.D. students in the Moderate interest profile showed signs of burnout, and they were prone to consider dropping out. Also, individuals in the Development and impact interest profile considered more frequently dropping out of their studies. Recommendations for Practitioners: Investing in the identification and support of interest among Ph.D. students is worthwhile, as interest is not a permanent characteristic of the individual, and the combination of research, development, and impact interest indicates a lower risk for burnout and drop-out intentions. Recommendation for Researchers: It is possible that interest profiles are the same across the two national contexts investigated in this study, but their underpinnings and premises are different. It is likely that a qualitative approach would shed more light on these foci. Impact on Society: The results imply that personal interest was not determined by the socio-cultural differences between the countries, indicating that cultivating doctoral students’ personal interest, particularly a combination of research, development, and impact, provides a potential buffer for doctoral students’ burnout and drop-out, which has been raised as global concerns among policy makers, researchers, and doctoral education developers and administrato
目的/目的:本研究旨在进一步了解丹麦和芬兰博士生对博士学习兴趣的个体差异,以及它们与倦怠和退学意向的关系。背景:芬兰和丹麦博士生的兴趣感、倦怠感和退学意向等方面的研究尚未见报道。以人为本的研究方法探索在两个可比较但不同的社会文化背景下进行博士研究的学生的个体差异是有限的。方法:本研究采用探索性因子分析、k均值聚类分析、两两比较、方差分析和卡方检验相结合的方法。芬兰和丹麦共有365名社会科学和人文学科的博士生参与了一项跨文化博士经历调查。贡献:本研究通过确定四种个人兴趣概况,有助于理解两种社会文化背景下博士生兴趣的个体差异。这些概要文件在不同的上下文中是不变的。该研究还进一步揭示了对研究的兴趣与遭受倦怠和娱乐辍学意图的风险之间的相互关系。研究发现:博士生的兴趣类型为“高兴趣”、“中等兴趣”、“发展、研究和影响兴趣”和“发展和影响兴趣”。所有的兴趣都表现出高度的发展兴趣,然而,它们在给予工具和研究兴趣的权重方面有所不同。中等兴趣组的博士生表现出倦怠的迹象,他们倾向于考虑退学。此外,对发展和影响感兴趣的个人退学的可能性更大。对从业人员的建议:投资于识别和支持博士生的兴趣是值得的,因为兴趣不是个人的永久特征,研究、开发和影响兴趣的结合表明倦怠和退学意图的风险较低。对研究人员的建议:在本研究中调查的两个国家背景中,兴趣概况可能是相同的,但它们的基础和前提是不同的。定性的方法很可能会更清楚地说明这些焦点。对社会的影响:研究结果表明,个人兴趣不受国家间社会文化差异的影响,这表明培养博士生的个人兴趣,特别是研究、开发和影响的结合,为博士生的倦怠和辍学提供了潜在的缓冲,这在过去十年中已引起全球政策制定者、研究人员、博士教育开发商和管理者的关注。该研究对国际上的博士研究产生了影响。未来研究:本研究的结果反映了社会科学的特定特征及其应用性质。未来的研究还有待于调查在自然科学中出现的与倦怠和退学意图相关的四种兴趣概况的程度。
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引用次数: 4
Similarities and Differences in How Supervisors at Canadian and UK Institutions Understand Doctoral Supervision 加拿大和英国大学导师对博士生监督理解的异同
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.28945/4870
Carolin Kreber, Cyril Wealer, Heather A Kanuka
Aim/Purpose: The study seeks to establish the potential role that policy and disciplinary contexts of doctoral education play in supervisors’ subjective understandings of PhD supervision. It also intends to show how research into the different ways in which supervision may be understood can help supervisors become more effective in their practice and additionally help institutions design more effective professional development opportunities for supervisors. Background: Previous research has highlighted the linkages between quality PhD supervision and positive student outcomes; nonetheless, why supervisors do what they do remains poorly understood. A few studies with small samples sought to better understand supervisors’ views on supervision and also identified qualitatively different ways of understanding supervision. The present study with a larger sample builds on and extends this work by looking specifically at the concrete intentions by which supervisors engage, in particular supervisory activities they consider important, differentiating the findings by policy context and discipline. Methodology: Participants included full-time faculty members with extensive PhD supervision experience from UK and Canadian institutions, thirty from each country with ten each from History, Biology, and Engineering. The study was comparative in that a data set generated in a previous study of the same design the researchers carried out with thirty supervisors from the UK (Kreber & Wealer, 2021) was drawn upon and compared to the new Canadian data set. The study was primarily qualitative and relied on two rounds of face-to-face interviews with each participant. In the introductory phase supervisors in each sample identified their views on the purposes of PhD study in their field and the goals of their supervision, and in the main research phase they articulated the concrete intentions by which they engage in supervisory activities with particular students. Data from both phases were subjected to inductive thematic analysis, facilitated by NVivo and Excel software respectively. The thematic analysis of statements of intent, the main data source, revealed six qualitatively different understandings of supervision, in each sample, which then were further examined for differences across policy contexts and disciplines. Contribution: Policy context did not appear to make a difference in the self-reported intentions by which supervisors engage in distinct supervisory activities. Six qualitatively different ways of understanding PhD supervision emerged from a thematic analysis of intentions within each of the samples: ‘Enculturation’, ‘Functional’, ‘Emancipation’, ‘Critical Thinking’, ‘Care/relationship building’ and ‘Preparation for career/life’. Given that the first five ways of understanding doctoral supervision were also identified by Lee (2008), the study enhances confidence that supervisors tend to understand supervision in terms of this limited range of qualit
目的:本研究旨在建立博士生教育的政策和学科背景对导师对博士生指导的主观理解的潜在作用。它还打算展示如何研究不同的方式来理解监管可以帮助监管者在他们的实践中变得更有效,另外帮助机构为监管者设计更有效的专业发展机会。背景:先前的研究强调了高质量的博士指导与积极的学生成果之间的联系;尽管如此,人们对监管人员为何要这么做仍知之甚少。少数小样本研究试图更好地了解管理者对监管的看法,也确定了理解监管的定性不同方式。目前的研究以更大的样本为基础,通过特别关注监管者参与的具体意图,特别是他们认为重要的监管活动,来扩展这项工作,并根据政策背景和纪律区分研究结果。研究方法:参与者包括来自英国和加拿大机构具有丰富博士指导经验的全职教师,两国各30人,历史、生物和工程各10人。该研究具有可比性,因为研究人员与来自英国的30名主管(Kreber & Wealer, 2021)进行了相同设计的先前研究(Kreber & Wealer, 2021),并将其与新的加拿大数据集进行了比较。这项研究主要是定性的,依赖于对每个参与者的两轮面对面访谈。在入门阶段,每个样本的导师都确定了他们对所在领域博士学习目的和监督目标的看法,在主要研究阶段,他们阐明了他们与特定学生进行监督活动的具体意图。这两个阶段的数据分别通过NVivo和Excel软件进行归纳性专题分析。对意向声明(主要数据来源)的专题分析揭示了每个样本中对监管的六种定性不同理解,然后进一步检查了政策背景和学科之间的差异。贡献:政策背景似乎没有对监督者参与不同监督活动的自我报告意图产生影响。通过对每个样本的意向进行主题分析,我们得出了六种不同的理解博士监督的定性方式:“文化适应”、“功能”、“解放”、“批判性思维”、“关怀/关系建立”和“为职业/生活做准备”。鉴于Lee(2008)也确定了理解博士生监督的前五种方式,该研究增强了人们的信心,即导师倾向于从这有限的质量不同的方式来理解监督。这六个概念还使我们能够识别、描述和更好地理解主管对其监督实践的个人概念(哪些概念具有强烈的特征,哪些概念处于背景地位),这有助于鼓励主管反思他们在监督实践中为什么要做他们所做的事情。研究发现:“文化适应”和“功能性”是主管在他们所确定的管理活动中最主要的概念,而其他四个概念在他们的意向声明中较少提及。当意图明确时,不是与具体活动有关,而是作为其监督实践的基础,更普遍地,主管倾向于支持强调核心学术价值的目标,而不是“功能”观点。采用的比较设计指出了两种政策背景和三个学科之间的共同点,而不是差异。识别意图陈述并将其分类为对监管的不同理解或“概念”,使我们能够描述个别监管人员所持有的个人和多维监管概念,并观察其特质。对从业人员的建议:鼓励大学中负责提供监督专业发展的学术发展专业人员利用本研究中采用的方法及其发现,鼓励监督人员意识到支持其监督活动的假设,并开发更适合学生需求的替代监督概念和方法。对研究人员的建议:研究结果要求对监督实践背后观察到的微小变化的原因进行更深入的调查,而不仅仅是关注本研究中考虑的特定学科和国家背景。 对社会的影响:导师是反思的实践者,能够根据特定学生的需要调整自己的做法,可能会提供更有效的监督,这有助于完成高质量的博士研究,进而有助于国家的经济、社会和文化发展。未来研究:新的研究方向包括关注监督观念的发展或变化,以及监督观念、有效的监督实践和积极的学生成果之间的联系。我们还强烈建议关注博士研究的具体实用价值,并鼓励在博士研究和监督方面追求可操作性和参与性的奖学金。
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引用次数: 2
Social Work Doctoral Student Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Descriptive Study COVID-19大流行期间社会工作博士生幸福感:一项描述性研究
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.28945/4840
Kylie E Evans, Megan R Holmes, Dana M Prince, V. Groza
Aim/Purpose: This descriptive study examines indicators of well-being and sources of emotional connection for social work doctoral students at American institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic, including symptoms of depression, anxiety, work-related burnout, emotional connection to others, and changes in child care among parent respondents. This study also explores if particular groups of doctoral students experience heightened risks to well-being during the pandemic. Background: Social isolation strategies associated with the COVID-19 pandemic present challenges for doctoral student well-being, mental health, professional relationships, and degree persistence. Of particular concern is the potentially disproportionate impact the pandemic may have on the well-being of students who already face additional barriers to degree completion, such as parents and caregivers, as well as those who face obstacles associated with structural oppression, including persons of color, women, and sexual minority (SM) students. Methodology: Baseline data was used from a longitudinal survey study conducted by the authors on social work doctoral student well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants (N = 297) were recruited through the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work’s (GADE’s) publicly available list of 89 member institutions in the United States. The majority of respondents identified as women (80.1%), 35% of the sample identified as a person of color and/or non-White race, 30% identified as a sexual minority, and 32% were parents of children under 18 years of age. Contribution: This study contributes to the larger body of literature on factors associated with risk, resilience, and well-being among doctoral students, and it offers a specific exploration of these factors within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study deepens our understanding of social work doctoral students in particular, who have higher rates of doctoral enrollment by women and persons of color than many other academic disciplines. Findings: Emotional connection to loved ones was significantly correlated with lower levels of depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and work-related burnout. Outcomes varied by race, with Black and Asian respondents indicating higher levels of emotional connection to loved ones as compared to White respondents, and Black respondents indicating lower levels of anxiety and depression compared to White respondents. SM respondents indicated significantly lower levels of emotional connection and higher levels of depression and anxiety, as compared to heterosexual respondents. Parents reported receiving substantially less child care assistance than they were before the pandemic, but also reported lower levels of anxiety, depression, and work-related burnout compared to childless respondents. Recommendations for Practitioners: Recommendations for doctoral program directors and chairs include implementing a purposive communi
目的/目的:本描述性研究考察了2019冠状病毒病大流行期间美国机构社会工作博士生的幸福感指标和情感联系来源,包括抑郁、焦虑、工作倦怠、与他人的情感联系以及父母受访者中儿童保育的变化。这项研究还探讨了在大流行期间,特定群体的博士生是否会面临更大的健康风险。背景:与COVID-19大流行相关的社会隔离策略对博士生的幸福感、心理健康、职业关系和学位坚持提出了挑战。特别令人关切的是,这种流行病可能对那些在完成学位方面已经面临额外障碍的学生(如父母和照顾者)以及那些面临与结构性压迫有关的障碍的学生(包括有色人种、妇女和性少数群体学生)的福祉产生潜在的不成比例的影响。方法:基线数据来自作者对COVID-19大流行期间社会工作博士生幸福感进行的纵向调查研究。参与者(N = 297)是通过美国社会工作博士教育促进小组(GADE)公开的89个成员机构名单招募的。大多数受访者认为自己是女性(80.1%),35%的受访者认为自己是有色人种和/或非白人,30%的受访者认为自己是性少数群体,32%的受访者是18岁以下儿童的父母。贡献:本研究为大量关于博士生风险、恢复力和幸福感相关因素的文献做出了贡献,并在2019冠状病毒病大流行的背景下对这些因素进行了具体探索。这项研究加深了我们对社会工作博士生的理解,尤其是社会工作博士生,女性和有色人种的博士生入学率高于许多其他学科。研究发现:与亲人的情感联系与较低水平的抑郁症状、焦虑症状和工作倦怠显著相关。结果因种族而异,与白人受访者相比,黑人和亚洲受访者与亲人的情感联系水平更高,而与白人受访者相比,黑人受访者的焦虑和抑郁水平较低。与异性恋受访者相比,SM受访者的情感联系水平明显较低,抑郁和焦虑水平较高。父母报告说,与大流行前相比,他们得到的儿童保育援助大大减少,但与没有孩子的受访者相比,他们的焦虑、抑郁和工作倦怠程度也较低。对实践者的建议:对博士项目主任和主席的建议包括实施有目的的沟通策略,教师塑造自我照顾和界限,创造联系机会,安排由学生兴趣和需求驱动的增值活动,灵活地接近学生的需求和学习计划,以及创建虚拟亲和小组来帮助学生与面临类似挑战的人联系。对研究人员的建议:在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间和之后,有必要对博士项目倡议和政策进行结果评估研究,以促进学生的福祉。对社会的影响:2019冠状病毒病大流行给博士教师和项目主任带来了复杂的财务、人际关系和项目挑战,其中许多挑战影响到学生的福祉和心理健康。本研究的发现和建议可用于解决博士生的需求,并支持他们完成博士学位的道路。未来的研究:未来的研究应该包括挖掘更广泛的抑郁、焦虑、情感联系和其他幸福领域的指标。多变量分析可以得出预测性结论,后续定性分析可以更深入地了解博士生在2019冠状病毒病大流行背景下的幸福感、应对技能和经历。
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The PhD Journey at Addis Ababa University: Study Delays, Causes and Coping Mechanisms 亚的斯亚贝巴大学博士之旅:学习延迟、原因和应对机制
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.28945/4744
G. Fetene, Wondwosen Tamrat
Aim/Purpose This study was conducted to examine the rate of delay, explanatory causes, and coping strategies of PhD candidates at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia’s premier university, over the last ten years. Background Delayed graduation is a common theme in doctoral education around the world. It continues to draw the concern of governments, universities, and the candidates themselves, calling for different forms of intervention. Addressing these challenges is key to resolving the many obstacles into doctoral education. Methodology Ten-year archival data consisting of 1,711 PhD students and in-depth interviews with ten PhD candidates were used as data-generation tools. The data collection focused on progression patterns, reasons for study delays, and the coping mechanisms used by doctoral students when they face challenges. While the candidates were interviewed to narrate their lived experience pertinent to the objectives of the study, the archival data regarding the PhD students were collected from the Registrar Office of the University under study. Contribution Amid an ongoing global debate about best practices in doctoral education, the research on study delays contributes not only to filling the existing empirical gap in the area but also in identifying factors, for example, related to financial matters, family commitment, and student-supervisor rapport, that help address the challenges faced and improving the provision of doctoral education. Findings The findings of this study revealed that the cumulative average completion time for a PhD study was 6.19 years— over two years more than the four years given as the optimum duration for completing a PhD program. The institutional pattern of delays over the last ten years indicates that doctoral students are requiring more and more years to complete their PhDs. The study further revealed The PhD Journey at Addis Ababa University 320 that completing a PhD in time is a process that can be influenced by many interacting factors, which include student commitment and preparation, favourable academic and research environment, and positive student-supervisor rapport. Recommendations for Practitioners It is important for practitioners and higher education institutions to find ways to improve the on-time completion of doctoral programmes in order to minimise the continued financial, emotional, and opportunity costs the higher education sector is currently incurring. Recommendations for Researchers The fact that this study was limited to a single institution by itself warrants more studies about time-to-degree in PhD programs and causes for study delays as well as studies about successful interventions in doctoral education. Future research should particularly explore the nature of the advisor/advisee relationship and other critical factors that appear to have a significant role in addressing the challenges of study delay. Impact on Society The expansion of PhD programmes is an encouraging development i
目的/目的本研究旨在调查埃塞俄比亚一流大学亚的斯亚贝巴大学(Addis Ababa University)博士生在过去十年中的延迟率、解释原因和应对策略。延迟毕业是世界各地博士教育的共同主题。它继续引起政府、大学和候选人自己的关注,呼吁采取不同形式的干预。解决这些挑战是解决博士教育诸多障碍的关键。方法采用1711名博士生的10年档案数据和对10名博士生的深度访谈作为数据生成工具。数据收集的重点是进展模式,学习延迟的原因,以及博士生面对挑战时使用的应对机制。当候选人被采访以叙述他们与研究目标相关的生活经历时,有关博士生的档案数据是从所研究的大学的注册办公室收集的。在关于博士教育最佳实践的持续全球辩论中,对学习延迟的研究不仅有助于填补该领域现有的经验差距,而且有助于确定因素,例如与财务问题、家庭承诺和学生与导师的关系有关,这些因素有助于解决所面临的挑战并改善博士教育的提供。这项研究的结果显示,博士学位的累计平均完成时间为6.19年,比完成博士课程的最佳持续时间4年多了两年多。过去十年的制度延迟模式表明博士生需要越来越多的时间来完成他们的博士学位。该研究进一步揭示了亚的斯亚贝巴大学320的博士之旅,及时完成博士学位是一个受许多相互作用因素影响的过程,包括学生的投入和准备,有利的学术和研究环境,以及积极的学生与导师的关系。对于从业者和高等教育机构来说,重要的是要找到提高博士课程按时完成的方法,以尽量减少高等教育部门目前正在产生的持续的经济、情感和机会成本。对研究人员的建议本研究仅限于单一机构,这一事实本身就证明了更多关于博士课程获得学位的时间、研究延迟的原因以及成功干预博士教育的研究。未来的研究应该特别探索导师/被导师关系的性质,以及其他在解决学习延迟挑战方面似乎发挥重要作用的关键因素。在埃塞俄比亚,博士课程的扩大是一个令人鼓舞的发展。本研究的发现可能有助于提高博士生的完成率,缩短项目持续时间,这将对减少个人、国家和机构层面所涉及的随之而来的经济、情感和机会成本具有重要意义。考虑到埃塞俄比亚大学数量的增加及其可能的多样性、博士生的概况、背景和期望,需要更多的研究来研究这种多样性如何影响博士生的进步和坚持。
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Toward Engaging Difference in a Globalized World 在全球化的世界中包容差异
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.28945/4742
Jennifer Macdonald, J. Liu, Sylvie Roy, Jody Dennis, S. Rothschuh, Marlon Simmons
Aim/Purpose: This paper reflects on participation in an International Doctoral Research Seminar, held in Beijing, China, to consider what it means to locate difference and make meaning in a globalized world in relation to teaching and learning. Background: The impetus for our inquiry stems from our shared experience at the seminar, which brought together 12 graduate students and six faculty members from three universities. We came with diverse life stories, educational and professional experiences, and research interests. Alongside presentations and school visits, some students questioned how teaching and learning practices differ in China compared to their experiences in Canada. Methodology: We employ an interpretive approach which allows us to revisit our individual stories and to explore different views of meaning-making in a globalized context. Specifically, two authors, positioned by different backgrounds (Chinese and Canadian), share their life histories and experiences for wider dialogue with other delegation members. We consider their experiences at various levels of education (K-12, leading up to graduate school, and at the doctoral seminar) as a mode of generating dialogue around the different contexts in relation to teaching and learning. Contribution: Our article contributes to the area of globalizing teaching and learning. We invite students and educators to revisit their lived experiences and advocate for daily practices that might defy sameness caused by the forces of globalization to instead contribute to epistemological diversity and tolerance. Findings: Through the process of unpacking the lived experiences of the two authors, we encounter the complexities of already being products of a globalized world. We reveal how a singular normative mode of knowing is perpetuated in many educational institutions. Difference, however, was located in the nuances of our stories. Thus, cultivating a practice of paying attention to the dynamic forms of knowing as they emerge can be a process of unlearning sameness toward rich meaning-making. Recommendations for Practitioners: We challenge educational practitioners to reflect on the ways in which meaning is, and can be, generated to resist uniformity and honor the lived experiences of students. We offer an opening to engage in narrative opportunities to promote dialogue and facilitate collaboration. Recommendation for Researchers: We open possibilities to consider a different ethic for generating meaning that resists overpowering global powers and honor local knowledge. Impact on Society: Our article provides an interpretive lens of global meaning-making to discuss critical social, cultural, and ecological dilemmas facing humanity through individuals’ narratives and life histories. Future Research: Future research will inquire into practical and ethical considerations that might play out in local settings (lectures, seminars, assessments, research proposals) and global collaborations,
目的/目的:本文反映了在中国北京举行的国际博士研究研讨会的参与情况,以考虑在全球化的世界中与教学和学习有关的差异和意义。背景:我们的研究源于我们在研讨会上的共同经历,研讨会汇集了来自三所大学的12名研究生和6名教员。我们带来了不同的生活故事、教育和专业经历以及研究兴趣。除了演讲和参观学校外,一些学生还质疑中国的教学和学习实践与他们在加拿大的经历有何不同。方法论:我们采用一种解释的方法,使我们能够重新审视我们的个人故事,并探索在全球化背景下意义创造的不同观点。具体来说,两位来自不同背景(中国和加拿大)的作者分享了他们的生活经历和经验,以便与其他代表团成员进行更广泛的对话。我们将他们在不同教育阶段(从K-12到研究生院,再到博士研讨会)的经历作为一种模式,围绕与教学和学习相关的不同背景产生对话。贡献:我们的文章对全球化教学领域做出了贡献。我们邀请学生和教育工作者重新审视他们的生活经历,并倡导日常实践,这些实践可能会抵制全球化力量造成的千篇一律,而不是促进认识论的多样性和宽容。研究发现:通过对两位作者生活经历的拆解,我们看到了作为全球化世界产物的复杂性。我们揭示了一种单一的认知规范模式是如何在许多教育机构中延续下去的。然而,不同之处在于我们故事的细微差别。因此,培养一种关注动态形式的认识的实践,可以是一个向丰富的意义创造的过程。对从业者的建议:我们向教育从业者提出挑战,要求他们反思如何产生和能够产生意义,以抵制千篇一律,尊重学生的生活经验。我们提供了一个参与叙事的机会,以促进对话和促进合作。给研究人员的建议:我们打开了考虑一种不同伦理的可能性,以产生意义,抵制压倒一切的全球力量,尊重当地知识。对社会的影响:我们的文章提供了一个全球意义建构的解释性镜头,通过个人的叙述和生活史来讨论人类面临的关键社会、文化和生态困境。未来的研究:未来的研究将探讨可能在当地环境(讲座、研讨会、评估、研究提案)和全球合作(如未来的博士研讨会)中发挥作用的实际和伦理考虑,以对抗西方的排他性。
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Validation in Doctoral Education: Exploring PhD Students’ Perceptions of Belonging to Scaffold Doctoral Identity Work 博士教育的验证:探索博士生对脚手架博士身份工作的归属感
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.28945/4876
J. Collins
Aim/Purpose: The aim of this article is to make a case of the role of validation in doctoral education. The purpose is to detail findings from three studies which explore PhD students’ experiences and perceptions of belonging in one UK university-ty, in order to hypothesise how validation and self-validation could make a difference in doctoral education, and what practices might support this. Background: The article draws on research into doctoral identity and work on ‘doctoral capital’ to explore how PhD students’ perceptions and experiences of not belonging to doctoral communities negatively impacts on their wellbeing. It extends this research by incorporating theories from Education and Psychology to build a theory of validation in doctoral education. Methodology: The article reports on three studies on PhD journeys and communities undertaken at one UK university. It draws on interview data from thirty doctoral candidates, which was thematically analysed using NVivo 12. Taking a qualitative approach to provide a rich and holistic focus on participant ‘meaning making’, the studies explore how PhD students understand belonging, where they receive validation and feel they need validation, and where self-validation can make a difference to their positivity about the PhD. Taking this approach to understand processes of ‘meaning-making’ paves the way to scaffold solutions through ‘reframing’ processes such as coaching and mentoring. Contribution: Thinking about PhD students’ belonging through the dimension of validation allows for practical support for developing belonging to be scaffolded, specifically through creating spaces to draw coaching skills into supervisory training and PhD student support (e.g., peer mentoring). This is significant as scholarship has shown that coaching has positive effects on wellbeing. This article contributes to understanding of where and how validation and self-validation manifest in doctoral education for PhD students. This contribution identifies ways in which external validation can help to scaffold internal self-validation; thus, offering a way of potentially mitigating risk factors to PhD students’ wellbeing. Specifically, validation can be understood as a ‘reserve’ that can be drawn on for ‘self-validation’. Validation is a solutions-focused theory. As a conceptual apparatus to understand doctoral students’ perceptions, validation theory also provides a frame for scaffolding practical ways for PhD students to build doctoral identity. Findings: The article focuses on challenges to PhD students building communities, supervisory relations and self-validation. It finds that supervisory feedback is a key area where PhD students seek validation. Two arguments are offered. First, that validation is a crucial process in (positive) doctoral identity work. Second, the argument is offered that making spaces for coaching skills to support PhD students can increase opportunities for validation (e.g., via supervisory tr
目的/目的:本文的目的是为验证在博士教育中的作用做一个案例。目的是详细介绍三项研究的结果,这些研究探索了博士生在一所英国大学的经历和归属感,以假设验证和自我验证如何在博士教育中发挥作用,以及哪些实践可能支持这一点。背景:本文通过对博士身份的研究和“博士资本”的研究,探讨博士生不属于博士生群体的感知和经历如何对他们的幸福感产生负面影响。在此基础上,结合教育学和心理学的理论,构建了博士教育的验证理论。方法:本文报告了在一所英国大学进行的博士旅程和社区的三项研究。它借鉴了来自30位博士候选人的访谈数据,并使用NVivo 12对其进行了主题分析。这些研究采用定性的方法,对参与者的“意义创造”提供了丰富而全面的关注,探讨了博士生如何理解归属感,他们在哪里得到认可,觉得自己需要认可,以及自我认可在哪里会影响他们对博士学位的积极性。采用这种方法来理解“意义创造”的过程,为通过“重构”过程(如指导和指导)来构建解决方案铺平了道路。贡献:通过验证维度思考博士生的归属感,可以为发展归属感提供实际支持,特别是通过创建空间,将指导技能引入监督培训和博士生支持(例如,同伴指导)。这一点很重要,因为学术研究表明,教练对幸福感有积极影响。本文有助于理解在博士生的博士教育中验证和自我验证在哪里以及如何体现。这一贡献确定了外部验证可以帮助支撑内部自我验证的方式;因此,提供了一种可能减轻博士生健康风险因素的方法。具体来说,验证可以被理解为一种“储备”,可以用于“自我验证”。验证是一个以解决方案为中心的理论。验证理论作为一种理解博士生感知的概念工具,也为博士生构建博士身份的实践途径提供了框架。研究发现:本文关注博士生在社区建设、监督关系和自我验证方面面临的挑战。研究发现,主管反馈是博士生寻求认可的一个关键领域。有两种观点。首先,在(积极的)博士身份工作中,验证是一个至关重要的过程。其次,该论点提出,为辅导技能提供空间来支持博士生可以增加验证(例如,通过监督培训)和自我验证(例如,通过同伴指导)的机会。对从业者的建议:那些支持博士研究人员的人可以潜在地支持验证技能和自我验证技能的发展。一些建议包括支持反馈和倾听技巧方面的监督培训,同伴指导作为培养博士生从外部验证到内部自我验证之间过渡的一种方式,以及学生自我验证的工作表作为附录。对研究人员的建议:本文通过提供一个新的维度来理解博士生之间的归属感是如何发展的,从而扩展了现有的关于博士生情感工作的文献。通过验证维度思考归属将归属的工作转向实际支持的可能性。对社会的影响:虽然“验证”一词已被用于本科教育研究,但在心理学(理论和临床环境)中,将这些术语结合起来创建一个理论来理解高等教育中的博士身份工作具有更大的潜在应用。“验证”可能在博士教育背景下被证明是有用的,可以理解和支持博士生在候选人期间过渡身份位置的发展。因此,尽管这些研究的范围仅限于英国,但研究结果可以更广泛地应用于其他高等教育领域。未来研究:确定了未来研究的两个领域。首先,了解不同群体的博士生(如留学生、LGBTQ+学生等)在博士身份认同工作中是否存在不同的验证需求和优先级,以及如何存在差异。第二是了解在不同背景下(例如,通过同伴指导计划、监督和自我验证)对博士进行指导的可能影响。
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引用次数: 2
Starting Doctoral Dissertation Journey with a Solid Research Problem Statement – A Four Stage Framework 开始博士论文之旅与坚实的研究问题陈述-一个四阶段的框架
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.28945/4810
Azad Ali, Shardul Pandya
Aim/Purpose: Provide methodology suggesting steps to doctoral mentors to work with students in constructing their research problem statement in their dissertation. Background: Doctoral students face difficulties writing their dissertation and they begin by writing the research problem statement. Methodology: This paper uses a framework widely used to describe student adjustment to graduate studies in general and to doctoral program in particular. Contribution: This study provides a framework to mentors/advisors that is helpful in guiding the students to writing their research problem statement. Findings: Writing a research problem statement is difficult by itself. Following a methodological approach suggested in this study could help with writing it. Recommendations for Practitioners: A methodological approach in writing the dissertation is helpful to mitigate the difficulties of writing the dissertation. Our study tackles difficulties with writing the research problem statement. Recommendations for Researchers: More research needs to be done on methodological approach to writing the other sections in the dissertation. Impact on Society: Our findings in this research will help doctoral mentors/advisors as they guide students in completing the writing of their research problem statement Future Research: Intention for future research is to follow similar methodological approach in guiding students in writing the other sections of the dissertation
目的/目的:提供方法建议步骤,博士生导师与学生一起在他们的论文中构建他们的研究问题陈述。背景:博士生在写论文时遇到困难,他们开始写研究问题陈述。方法:本文使用了一个广泛用于描述学生适应研究生学习的框架,特别是博士课程。贡献:本研究为导师/顾问提供了一个框架,有助于指导学生撰写他们的研究问题陈述。发现:写一个研究问题陈述本身是困难的。遵循本研究中建议的方法方法可以帮助您编写它。对从业人员的建议:在写论文的方法论方法有助于减轻写论文的困难。我们的研究解决了撰写研究问题陈述的困难。对研究人员的建议:更多的研究需要做的方法方法来写论文的其他部分。对社会的影响:我们在这项研究中的发现将帮助博士导师/顾问,因为他们指导学生完成他们的研究问题陈述的写作未来研究:未来研究的意图是遵循类似的方法方法来指导学生撰写论文的其他部分
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引用次数: 0
Doctoral Students’ Learning Experiences in Ghana: Exploring a New Curriculum Using Bourdieu’s Concepts 加纳博士生的学习经历:运用布迪厄概念探索新课程
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.28945/4879
Inusah Salifu, Joseph Seyram Agbenyega
Aim/Purpose: To utilize Pierre Bourdieu’s (1984, 1986) concepts of capitals, habitus, and field to explore and critically analyze doctoral students’ learning experiences with a new doctoral curriculum introduced by a Ghanaian university. Background: Global competition and labor market reforms have ignited the need for higher education institutions to reimagine their doctoral programs, develop and align them with labor market demands and national priorities. Methodology: The research was conducted as a qualitative inquiry based on which the purposive sampling technique was used with 18 doctoral students from a Ghanaian university. Participants took part in individual interviews and data were analyzed using thematic coding procedures developed based on Bourdieu’s (1984; 1986) theorization of capital, habitus, and field Contribution: The study may benefit universities in monitoring the quality of doctoral students’ learning experiences. Findings: The research found that, although the participants were broadly satisfied with some aspects of their programs, the additional cost associated with its duration, the lack of quality and timely feedback from supervisors, and difficulty accessing conference funding were key challenges to achieving the ultimate goals of the new doctoral curriculum. Recommendations for Practitioners: The paper draws attention to human dispositions, values, and beliefs (habitus) which operate with different forms of capital in fields of doctoral training. Recommendation for Researchers: Researchers may focus on tools that help to transform supervisor habitus and the kinds of support that work for individual students. Impact on Society: The strongest message gleaned from this study is that to improve doctoral students’ learning experiences, it is necessary first to develop a student-supervisor relationship built on mutual respect, clear timelines for achieving supervision targets, and commitment to achieving the targets. The research further challenges the higher education system in Ghana and in deed, the world at large, to look beyond the objectified capital (certificates) and to develop relevant skills that students require to be professionally ready for the labor market. Future Research: One of the study’s limitations is that the sample was selected from one university in Ghana. Future research may compare doctoral curriculums and students’ learning experiences across several Ghanaian universities. Again, this research used the perspectives of only students. A future study may draw on multiple perspectives to provide depth and breadth of knowledge on the doctoral program.
目的/目的:利用Pierre Bourdieu(1984,1986)的资本、习惯和场域的概念,探索和批判性地分析加纳一所大学引入的博士生新课程的学习经历。背景:全球竞争和劳动力市场改革激发了高等教育机构重新构想其博士课程的需求,使其与劳动力市场需求和国家优先事项保持一致。方法:本研究以定性调查的方式进行,在此基础上,对来自加纳一所大学的18名博士生采用了有目的的抽样技术。参与者参加了个别访谈,并使用基于Bourdieu (1984;1986)资本、习惯和领域的理论化贡献:该研究可能有利于大学监测博士生学习经验的质量。研究发现,尽管参与者对其项目的某些方面普遍感到满意,但与项目持续时间相关的额外成本、导师缺乏质量和及时的反馈以及难以获得会议资金是实现新博士课程最终目标的关键挑战。对从业者的建议:本文提请注意在博士培养领域中与不同形式的资本一起运作的人的性格、价值观和信仰(习惯)。给研究人员的建议:研究人员可能会关注有助于改变导师习惯的工具,以及对学生个体有效的支持。对社会的影响:从本研究中收集到的最强烈的信息是,为了改善博士生的学习体验,首先有必要建立一种建立在相互尊重、实现指导目标的明确时间表和实现目标的承诺基础上的学生与导师的关系。这项研究进一步挑战了加纳的高等教育系统,事实上,在世界范围内,超越客观资本(证书),发展学生所需的相关技能,为劳动力市场做好专业准备。未来研究:该研究的局限性之一是样本来自加纳的一所大学。未来的研究可能会比较加纳几所大学的博士课程和学生的学习经历。同样,这项研究只使用了学生的观点。未来的研究可能会从多个角度为博士课程提供深度和广度的知识。
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引用次数: 1
Examining Educational Leadership Doctoral Students’ Self-Efficacy as Related to Their Role as a Scholarly Practitioner Researcher 研究教育领导博士生自我效能感与学术实践者角色的关系
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.28945/4811
Juliann S McBrayer, Katherine F. Fallon, Steven Tolman, Daniel W Calhoun, Emily Ballesteros, Taylor Mathewson
Aim/Purpose: This study examined an educational leadership doctoral preparation program to better understand how students’ self-efficacy evolves from the lens of a scholarly practitioner researcher as they progress through specified checkpoints to degree completion. The aim was to identify what factors contributed to building scholarly practitioner researcher skills and what factors hindered the development of doctoral students as they progressed through their educational leadership preparation program. Background: Doctoral programs have the highest attrition of graduate programs, with almost half of the successful students taking six to seven years to complete. Thus, educational leadership doctoral preparation programs must find ways to enhance students’ perceived capability in an effort to facilitate their progress through the program in a timely manner. The researchers believe having high research self-efficacy coupled with evidence-based practices to strengthen scholarly practitioner research skills may be a contributor to effective program progression if viewed from the lens of a scholarly practitioner researcher. Methodology: A mixed-methods study utilizing an ex-post-facto research design based on descriptive statistics coupled with an analysis of qualitative data examined students’ perceived self-efficacy of educational leadership doctoral students in relation to their rate of progression. Contribution: This study provides other doctoral programs a lens into the importance of maintaining students’ high self-efficacy, specifically in the area of scholarly practitioner research to ensure efficient progression through the program to completion in a timely manner. Findings: Educational leadership doctoral students in the specified cohorts reported high self-efficacy at the pre-, mid-, and post-assessment checkpoints in the program during their coursework tier, and findings revealed this high self-efficacy was sustained throughout this progression to the dissertation tier. Four overarching narrative themes influencing students self-efficacy in scholarly practitioner research were identified as Social Support, Academic Challenges, Discipline, Effort, and Motivation, and Personal Challenges. Recommendations for Practitioners: Educational leadership and related doctoral programs should consider using a scholarly practitioner researcher approach. This focus may lead to faster rates of degree completion and better prepared students to solve problems of practice in their practitioner settings. Recommendation for Researchers: While the results are promising in support of evidence-based practices to prepare scholarly practitioner researchers, in turn sustaining or supporting high levels of self-efficacy may prove impactful, thus warranting further research. Impact on Society: Ensuring high levels of self-efficacy may help students to complete their doctoral degree in a timelier manner due to the perception they are capable of program completion
目的/目的:本研究考察了一个教育领导博士准备项目,以更好地了解学生的自我效能感是如何从一个学术实践者研究者的角度,随着他们通过指定的检查点到学位的完成而演变的。目的是确定哪些因素有助于建立学术实践者研究技能,以及哪些因素阻碍了博士生在他们的教育领导准备计划中取得进展的发展。背景:博士课程是研究生课程中流失率最高的,几乎一半的成功学生需要六到七年的时间才能完成。因此,教育领导博士准备课程必须找到提高学生感知能力的方法,努力促进他们及时通过课程取得进步。研究人员认为,如果从一个学术实践者的角度来看,高研究自我效能加上以证据为基础的实践来加强学术实践者的研究技能,可能会对有效的项目进展做出贡献。方法:一项混合方法研究利用基于描述性统计的事后研究设计,结合定性数据分析,研究了教育领导博士生的学生感知自我效能感与他们的进步速度的关系。贡献:本研究为其他博士项目提供了保持学生高自我效能感的重要性的视角,特别是在学术实践者研究领域,以确保项目的有效进展并及时完成。研究结果:指定队列中的教育领导力博士生在课程阶段的项目前、中、后评估点报告了高自我效能感,研究结果显示,这种高自我效能感在进入论文阶段的整个过程中一直保持着。在学术实践者研究中,影响学生自我效能感的四个主要叙事主题是社会支持、学术挑战、纪律、努力和动机以及个人挑战。对实践者的建议:教育领导和相关的博士课程应该考虑使用学术实践者研究方法。这种重点可能会导致更快的学位完成率和更好的准备学生解决实践中的问题,在他们的执业设置。对研究人员的建议:虽然结果很有希望支持以证据为基础的实践,以准备学术实践者研究人员,但反过来维持或支持高水平的自我效能可能证明是有影响的,因此需要进一步的研究。对社会的影响:确保高水平的自我效能感可以帮助学生更及时地完成他们的博士学位,因为他们认为他们有能力完成项目,也可以更好地为学生在他们的教育环境中担任学术实践者研究人员做好准备。未来的研究:未来的研究应该继续从学术实践者的角度来纵向研究自我效能感,以更好地理解自我效能感是如何影响博士生从入学到项目完成的努力和能力的。此外,未来的研究可以定量评估一个模型,确定自我效能感与四个确定的主题之间的关系,以促进博士生作为学术实践者的研究技能的发展。
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Impostor Phenomenon Among Engineering Education Researchers: An Exploratory Study 工程教育研究者中的冒名顶替现象:一项探索性研究
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.28945/4883
Devasmita Chakraverty
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore reasons that engineering education researchers experience impostor phenomenon. Background: Experiencing impostor phenomenon includes a psychological discomfort experienced by some high-achieving individuals who, by the very virtue of being successful, mistakenly believe that they are fraudulent and faking their success. Impostor phenomenon has been studied more broadly in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), with little research specifically in engineering and computer science and none, to the author’s knowledge, in engineering education research. As an emerging discipline, some of the challenges in engineering education research include its poor connection with engineering teaching and learning, establishing multidisciplinary collaborations, and advancing global capacity. As a result of its poor connection with engineering fields, and being a new discipline, it is possible that engineering education researchers hold an identity that is different from engineering researchers. Some of them could be experiencing their training differently, struggling to find mentors from a similar background, and possibly feeling like impostors. Methodology: Using purposive sampling and snowball sampling, US-based engineering education researchers participated in a short survey and a semi-structured interview. The survey consisted of demographic questions, items of the Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale, and an open-ended question about an instance when participants experienced impostor phenomenon. Interviews examined, in detail, reasons for experiencing impostor phenomenon as engineering education researchers. The scale provided a measure of the intensity of impostor phenomenon. Interviews were analyzed inductively through constant comparison using a constructivist approach. Contribution: Findings indicate various axes of othering that made it difficult to develop a sense of belonging, especially for women, and contributed to impostor phenomenon. Othering occurred through identity-based experiences (gender-identity, engineer-identity), different methodologies used to conduct research, and different vocabulary used for academic communication. Findings: The sample comprised of eleven participants (PhD students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty), all of whom experienced high to intense impostor phenomenon (range: 61-91/100; mean 75.18). Participants were predominantly white women from twenties to forties. Interviews indicated two reasons for experiencing impostor phenomenon: (1) existing in a separate world from engineering (referring to cultural differences between engineering and engineering education including differences in communication styles, methodologies, and identities); and, (2) facing gendered experiences (for women). Recommendations for Practitioners: It is recommended that practitioners are mindful of the tensions between worldviews, commonly used methodologies, and demo
目的/目的:本研究的目的是探讨工程教育研究者经历冒名顶替现象的原因。背景:经历冒名顶替现象是指一些成功人士所经历的一种心理不适,他们由于自身的成功,错误地认为自己是骗子,伪造了自己的成功。冒名顶替现象在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域得到了更广泛的研究,而在工程和计算机科学领域的研究很少,据笔者所知,在工程教育研究方面也没有。作为一门新兴学科,工程教育研究面临的一些挑战包括与工程教与学的联系不紧密,建立多学科合作,以及提高全球能力。由于工程教育与工程领域的联系不紧密,而且作为一门新兴学科,工程教育研究人员可能拥有与工程研究人员不同的身份。他们中的一些人可能经历了不同的培训,努力寻找来自相似背景的导师,可能感觉自己像骗子。方法:采用有目的抽样和滚雪球抽样,美国工程教育研究人员参加了一个简短的调查和半结构化访谈。该调查包括人口统计问题、Clance冒名顶替现象量表的项目,以及一个关于参与者经历冒名顶替现象的开放式问题。访谈详细考察了作为工程教育研究者经历冒名顶替现象的原因。该量表提供了一种衡量冒名顶替现象强度的方法。访谈采用建构主义方法,通过不断的比较进行归纳分析。贡献:研究结果表明,各种各样的“他者”轴使得人们很难产生归属感,尤其是对女性来说,并导致了骗子现象。另一些则是通过基于身份的经历(性别认同、工程师认同)、不同的研究方法和不同的学术交流词汇而发生的。研究结果:样本包括11名参与者(博士生、博士后学者和教师),他们都经历了高度到强烈的冒名顶替现象(范围:61-91/100;意思是75.18)。参与者主要是20到40岁的白人女性。访谈显示了出现冒名顶替现象的两个原因:(1)存在于与工程不同的世界中(指工程和工程教育之间的文化差异,包括沟通方式、方法和身份的差异);(2)面对性别体验(女性)。对实践者的建议:建议实践者注意世界观、常用方法之间的紧张关系,以及工程研究和工程教育研究之间的人口统计学差异,这些差异可能会影响一个人在该领域的经验,并在博士培训期间和之后为“他人”做出贡献。对研究人员的建议:工程教育研究的博士和博士后培训可以更加包容和开放,以不同的研究方法。未来的研究深入探讨工程教育研究人员所经历的各种培训挑战,可以阐明该领域如何变得更具包容性。对社会的影响:目前的研究提供了对工程和工程教育研究之间二分法的细致理解,包括学术交流的不同风格,使用的研究方法和身份。它还提供了对女性在该领域的性别经历的理解,指出了公开或隐蔽的缺乏承认。这两个因素都会让一些人觉得自己是局外人或骗子,他们会质疑自己,怀疑自己在这个领域的能力和归属感。考虑到该领域相对较新,不断发展,世界观,方法和吸引博士及以上培训的人口结构(尚未)多样化,因此该领域的人员流失可能代价高昂,甚至对整个社会来说也是如此。该研究为如何重新设想工程教育研究人员的培训提供了基于证据的理解。未来研究:未来研究可以详细检查工程教育研究培训中可能导致冒名顶替现象、归属感差、身份差和其他经验的方面。
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