Reshaping Doctoral Education: International Approaches and Pedagogies

Key aspects, expertly discussed by contributors from the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, China, South Africa, Sweden and Denmark include:

• the changing nature of doctoral education
• the need for systematic and principled accounts of doctoral pedagogies
• the importance of disciplinary specificity
• the relationship between pedagogy and knowledge generation
• issues of transdisciplinarity.

Reshaping Doctoral Education provides rich accounts of traditional and more innovative pedagogical practices within a range of doctoral systems in different disciplines, professional fields and geographical locations, providing the reader with a trustworthy and scholarly platform from which to design the doctioral experience. It will prove an essential resource for anyone involved in doctorate studies, whether as students, supervisors, researchers, administrators, teachers or mentors.