Description
Book Synopsis- What are professional doctorates?
- How do they change professional knowledge and improve practice?
- How can universities organise doctoral programmes to facilitate professional learning and development?
- What is the most appropriate relationship between professional and academic knowledge?
This book examines the relationship between advanced study on higher education courses and professional practice. It explores contributions made by research on practice to professional development.
The editors document and explain strategies that universities use:
- in recruitment
- aims and purposes of the degree
- selection of content and focus
- assessment procedures
- curricular structures
- pedagogy
- teaching strategies
- conditions for learning
- support for professionals
- relations with interested bodies and stakeholders.
The book uses in-depth case studies of three professional doctorates: the doctorate in business administra
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
1 Introduction
Part 1: Histories and Contexts
2 The Changing Role of the University
3 The Evolution of Professional Doctorates
Part 2: Knowledge Matters
4 Academic and Professional Knowledge
5 The Reflective Student-Practitioner
Part 3: Teaching and Learning
6 Marketing, Selection and Assessment
7 Curriculum and Pedagogy
Part 4: Trajectories
8 Motivation
9 Identity
10 The Professions: Status and Qualifications
11 Conclusions: Hybrid Forms of Knowledge
References
Index
The Society for Research into Higher Education
