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Kovacic, Zora; Marcos-Valls, Alejandro – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Interdisciplinary research is gathering increasing support from sustainability scholars, however, there is little dialogue between scholarship on interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinary environmental science education. The aim of this paper is to take stock of the insights of studies of interdisciplinary research to inform environmental research…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Student Attitudes, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Alisha B. Diggs; Joi-Lynn Mondisa – Journal of Faculty Development, 2022
Over the past several decades, there has been a significant growth in the number of Future Faculty Development (FFD) programs aimed at increasing the number of Ph.D.s in higher education. Yet despite the growth of these programs, minimal research exists that provides a collective overview of existing FFD programs that target historically racially…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Doctoral Students, STEM Education, Postdoctoral Education
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Piccardo, Chiara; Goto, Yutaka; Koca, Deniz; Aalto, Pasi; Hughes, Mark – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: Doctoral candidates possess specialized knowledge that could support sustainability transitions. Doctoral education, however, often focusses on discipline-specific topics and working methods, making it difficult to "see the bigger picture". This summer school on wood construction gathered doctoral candidates from different…
Descriptors: Barriers, Interdisciplinary Approach, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students
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Sarah A. Capello; M. Gyimah-Concepcion; B. Buckley-Hughes – American Journal of Distance Education, 2024
Advancements in educational technology have increased opportunity and access for students who wish to pursue doctoral education through a variety of delivery options and have resulted in increased enrollments in doctoral programs over the past decade. However, doctoral retention and graduation rates remain dismal. Online and asynchronous programs…
Descriptors: Robotics, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs, Delivery Systems
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Bottomley, Kevin; Schumacher, Jane; Burleigh, Cheryl; Lindsay, Pamela – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2020
The literature indicates that approximately 50% of those who seek a doctoral education complete the degree. Research indicates that persistence is one of the key issues that students struggle with and negatively impacts their ability to graduate. Other factors include the ability to maintain enrollment; topic selection; and ability to maintain a…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Academic Persistence, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs
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Cisel, Matthieu; Barbier, Charlotte – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Student-Question-Based Inquiry (SQBI) represents a form of inquiry where pupils design their research questions, hypotheses, and protocols. The "Savanturiers" program aims at helping teachers overcome their potential apprehension of SQBI by matching hundreds of elementary and middle school teachers with mentors. These mentors are usually…
Descriptors: Mentors, Inquiry, Program Descriptions, Elementary School Teachers
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Peters, Michael A.; Oladele, Ogunniran Moses; Green, Benjamin; Samilo, Artem; Lv, Hanfei; Amina, Laimeche; Wang, Yaqian; Chunxiao, Mou; Chunga, Jasmin Omary; Rulin, Xu; Ianina, Tatiana; Hollings, Stephanie; Farid Barsoum Yousef, Magdoline; Jandric, Petar; Sturm, Sean; Li, Jian; Xue, Eryong; Jackson, Liz; Tesar, Marek – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
This paper is an experiment in collective writing conducted in Autumn 2019 at the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. The experiment involves 12 international masters' students reading the course based on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), their professor Michael Peters, visiting professor Petar Jandric, and a mix of senior Chinese…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Writing Processes