Envisioning the Future of Doctoral Education: Preparing Stewards of the Discipline - Carnegie Essays on the DoctorateISBN: 978-0-7879-8235-5
Hardcover
480 pages
January 2006, Jossey-Bass
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The 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
term—someone 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 discipline?” The authors of the essays are respected thinkers, researchers, and scholars who are experienced with and thoughtful about doctoral education.