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Book SynopsisThe development of students as stewards of the discipline should be the purpose of doctoral education. A steward is a scholar in the fullest sense of the termsomeone who can imaginatively generate new knowledge, critically conserve valuable and useful ideas, and responsibly transform those understandings through writing, teaching, and application. Stewardship also has an ethical and moral dimension; it is a role that transcends a collection of accomplishments and skills. A steward is someone to whom the vigor, quality, and integrity of the field can be entrusted. The most important period of a steward's formation occurs during formal doctoral education.
Envisioning the Future of Doctoral Education is a collection of essays commissioned for the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate. The question posed to the essayists in this volume was, If you could start de novo, what would be the best way to structure doctoral education in your field to prepare stewards of the disci
Table of Contents
The Authors.
PART ONE: Introduction.
1. Preparing Stewards of the Discipline (Chris M. Golde).
PART TWO: Commentaries.
2. Who Should Do What: Implications for Institutional and National Leaders (Kenneth Prewitt).
3. Vectors of Change (David Damrosch).
4. Heeding the Voices of Graduate Students and Postdocs (Crispin Taylor).
PART THREE: The Essays.
5. Unmasking Uncertainties and Embracing Contradictions: Graduate Education in the Sciences (Yehuda Elkana).
Doctoral Education in Mathematics.
6. Developing Scholars and Professionals: The Case of Mathematics (Hyman Bass).
7. A Time for Change? The Mathematics Doctorate (Tony F. Chan).
Doctoral Education in Chemistry.
8. Time for Reform? (Alvin L. Kwiram).
9. Developing Breadth and Depth of Knowledge: The Doctorate in Chemistry (Ronald Breslow).
10. Training Future Leaders (Angelica M. Stacy).
Doctoral Education in Neuroscience.
11. Maintaining Vitality Through Change: Graduate Education in Neuroscience (Zach W. Hall).
12. The Challenges of Multidisciplinarity: Neuroscience and the Doctorate (Steven E. Hyman).
Doctoral Education in Education.
13. Stewards of a Field, Stewards of an Enterprise: The Doctorate in Education (Virginia Richardson).
14. Toward a Future as Rich as Our Past (David C. Berliner).
Doctoral Education in History.
15. Expanding the Domain of History (Thomas Bender).
16. Historians, the Historical Forces They Have Fostered, and the Doctorate in History (Joyce Appleby).
17. Getting Ready to Do History (William Cronon).
Doctoral Education in English.
18. Rethinking the Ph.D. in English (Andrea Abernethy Lunsford).
19. Toward a New Consensus: The Ph.D. in English (Gerald Graff).
20. Words and Responsibilities: Graduate Education and the Humanities (Catharine R. Stimpson).
PART FOUR: Conclusion.
21. The Questions in the Back of the Book (George E. Walker).
Name Index.
Subject Index.
