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Åkerlind, Gerlese; McAlpine, Lynn – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
International policy changes that have prioritised increasing growth in the numbers of doctoral students have led to wide-ranging debate about the changing purpose of the doctorate. However, there has been little research aimed at investigating doctoral supervisors' views of the purpose of the doctorate, despite the significant role supervisors…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Supervisory Methods, Supervision, Teacher Attitudes
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zareie, Mohammad Hossein; Nasr, Ahmad Reza; Mirshahjafari, Seyyed Ebrahim; Liaghatdar, Mohammad Javad – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
Professional development of educators, especially in preschool years has been neglected in Iran. The purpose of this study was to investigate the viewpoints of experts and teachers about the purposes and content of the professional development plan for preschool teachers. This research is a descriptive-analytic study conducted through both…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Preschool Teachers, Foreign Countries, Semi Structured Interviews
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Cheng, Ming – Quality in Higher Education, 2014
The notion of "quality as transformation" has been widely used in the higher education sector. However, both quality and transformation are elusive terms. There is little research exploring how quality could be equated to transformation in the learning process. This paper will provide an insight into the relationship between quality and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Educational Change, Graduate Study
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Gunuc, Selim – Qualitative Research in Education, 2015
The purpose of this basic research is to determine the problems experienced in the Technology Mentoring Program (TMP), and the study discusses how these problems affect the process in general. The implementation was carried out with teacher educators in the education faculty. 8 doctorate students (mentors) provided technology mentoring…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Educators, Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education
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Stewart, Bonnie – Learning, Media and Technology, 2015
Within the academy, signals of a scholar's academic influence are made manifest in indices like the "h"-index, which rank output. In open scholarly networks, however, signals of influence are less codified, and the ways in which they are enacted and understood have yet to be articulated. Yet the influence scholars cultivate in open…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Ethnography
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Bilecen, Basak – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
Drawing on the literature on international student experiences and identities, this study discusses theories of identity from a social constructionist perspective. "Identification" is the preferred term to describe a dynamic process through which students negotiate the meaning of their identities in different societies and communities.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Student Mobility, Foreign Students, Graduate Students
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Tonbul, Yilmaz – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Problem Statement: The "right selection" of doctoral candidates is of great importance for the effectiveness of doctoral programs. There are programs in which one can directly begin with the dissertation, as well as programs that require the completion of credits through mandatory and elective courses. It is widely accepted that academic…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries, Doctoral Dissertations
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Fletcher, Edward C., Jr.; Gies, Maria; Hodge, Samuel R. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2011
The purpose of this study was to describe the meaning doctoral candidates ascribed to their persistence in doctoral programs despite challenges they experienced impeding a timely completion of their dissertations. Participants were six doctoral candidates (four women, two men) who had not yet completed a dissertation research proposal. This…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Academic Persistence, Barriers