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"Achieving your Professional Doctorate is a stimulating and very useful book for professional doctorate students, their tutors, researchers and practitioners interested in this form of doctorate and all those with an interest in doctorate education. Nancy-Jane Lee manages to combine a deeply scholarly approach with a highly readable text, setting professional doctorates in their historical context, and seeing the doctoral project from the point of view of the student. She has identified some of the strengths and challenges of professional doctorate study, such as the nature of professional knowledge, the importance of a reflective approach to practitioner research and some of the ethical challenges.Professional doctorate students from all professional backgrounds will find this a useful and reassuring text at whatever stage of their doctorate. I would also suggest that it has a wider audience of doctoral students and that PhD students in professional domains would find con

Table of Contents
1 Appraising professional doctorates: What, who and why?
2 Developing a personal toolkit for professional doctorate study
3 The practitioner-researcher: Developing a critical and reflexive approach to professional practice
4 Making the most of research supervision
5 The professional toolkit: Leading research in professional practice
6 Values and beliefs about professional practice
7 Sharing your expertise with other professionals
8 Life after the professional doctorate

Achieving your Professional Doctorate

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      Publisher: Open University Press
      Publication Date: 16/11/2008
      ISBN13: 9780335227211, 978-0335227211
      ISBN10: 033522721X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      "Achieving your Professional Doctorate is a stimulating and very useful book for professional doctorate students, their tutors, researchers and practitioners interested in this form of doctorate and all those with an interest in doctorate education. Nancy-Jane Lee manages to combine a deeply scholarly approach with a highly readable text, setting professional doctorates in their historical context, and seeing the doctoral project from the point of view of the student. She has identified some of the strengths and challenges of professional doctorate study, such as the nature of professional knowledge, the importance of a reflective approach to practitioner research and some of the ethical challenges.Professional doctorate students from all professional backgrounds will find this a useful and reassuring text at whatever stage of their doctorate. I would also suggest that it has a wider audience of doctoral students and that PhD students in professional domains would find con

      Table of Contents
      1 Appraising professional doctorates: What, who and why?
      2 Developing a personal toolkit for professional doctorate study
      3 The practitioner-researcher: Developing a critical and reflexive approach to professional practice
      4 Making the most of research supervision
      5 The professional toolkit: Leading research in professional practice
      6 Values and beliefs about professional practice
      7 Sharing your expertise with other professionals
      8 Life after the professional doctorate

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