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Doctoral Education Only Works If it Doesn’t Work
By Sheri Oberman February 3, 2014 - 9:18amMy previous post was about new thinking in doctoral education and featured two quotes from esteemed thinkers on the subject. One quote said, “It is also important… that new pedagogies and programs elements be treated as education...Experiments in Doctoral Pedagogy
By Sheri Oberman January 29, 2014 - 6:58amExperiments with Doctoral PedagogyExperiments with Doctoral Pedagogy
By Sheri Oberman January 28, 2014 - 12:48pm“It is also important, perhaps more so for education than for any other discipline, that new pedagogies and programs elements be treated as education experiments. They must be carefully assessed and the resulting knowledge shared with those in...Smash Type of (Doctoral) Research Question into Depth of Knowledge Scale: Doesn’t Matter
By Sheri Oberman January 5, 2014 - 12:00pmRecently, Pat Thompson wrote about classification of research questions. Research questions can classified broadly as gap-spotting questions or problematization questions (Alvesson and Sandberg, 2011). Gap spotting questions ( ie. confusion gaps,...a different approach to research questions: a useful holiday read
By Sheri Oberman January 3, 2014 - 11:48ama different approach to research questions: a useful holiday read.Apgar Score for Doctoral Programs
By Sheri Oberman December 31, 2013 - 12:35pm Comments (1)Wouldn’t it be loverly, if at a glance a wannabe doctoral student, a Dean of Graduate Studies, a doctoral researcher could tell the health and well-being of a doctoral program. Dr. Virginia Apgar, an obstetrician, developed the Apgar...Doctoral Program Index: Doctoral Research Project Redux
By Sheri Oberman December 31, 2013 - 12:27pmReaders please give me feedback regarding the doctoral research project I’m considering. I’m a doctoral researcher studying doctoral pedagogy, so the proposed project has auto-ethnographic aspects too. Here is how the abstract might...The First Fabrication
By Sheri Oberman November 30, 2013 - 3:43pmThe first fabrication… The first fabrication of doctoral studies postulates that of all who enter doctoral studies only the worthy survive. The second fabrication purports that students who complete do so because of greater talent. The third...Hallowed Wean
By Sheri Oberman October 31, 2013 - 12:20pmUp where doctoral studies belong, behind the black curtain of the wizard, enter the wannabe Ph. Ds. Doctoral students apprentice to wizards: pretend to be the next generation of pretenders. In the land behind the black curtain, in the mists...
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