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Buschlen, Eric – Journal of Leadership Education, 2022
This narrative shares a personal account of how the actions of one person can truly motivate, inspire, and challenge another person to transform. This reflective story outlines the actions of my transformational leader and also indicates how those behaviors align with a transformational leadership model published well after the interaction. I also…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Transformational Leadership, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Influence
Jon A. Brammer – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Doctoral students usually exhibit a proven track record of academic success as demonstrated by the completion of both undergraduate and graduate degrees. However, despite that success, attrition rates across doctoral program are high. The challenges inherent in completing a doctoral program are well-documented, but the over-arching concepts that…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, College Graduates, Transformative Learning, Writing (Composition)
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Jie Bao; Dezheng Feng; Guangwei Hu; Junju Wang – Studies in Higher Education, 2025
Supervision lies at the heart of research-based doctoral education. Existing scholarship has recognized the role of supervision in students' academic socialization and identity construction but presented little empirical evidence based on prolonged observations of actual supervisory interactions. Addressing this gap, the present study adopted a…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Professional Identity, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Graduate School Faculty
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Sónia Cardoso – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
This paper investigates the evolving landscape of European doctoral education and its impact on the doctorate's identity and value. It conducts a comprehensive analysis, drawing from both extensive literature review and empirical data from the Portuguese context. This examination reveals intricate changes in doctoral education, driven by a…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Transformative Learning, Doctoral Students, Student Needs
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Xu, Xing – Australian Educational Researcher, 2021
Despite widespread discourse subordinating the female PhD as a third gender in the Chinese media, little is known about how this cohort conceptualises themselves, especially in an international context. Based on a qualitative investigation into 10 Chinese female doctoral students in Australia, this study examines their enactment of agency in…
Descriptors: Females, Asians, Doctoral Students, Gender Differences
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Robertson, Margaret J.; Nguyet Nguyen, Minh – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2021
Since the early 21st century the number of doctoral students leaving their own country to study abroad has risen significantly adding to swelling numbers of domestic students. The process of doctoral studies has been acknowledged as identity transformation, a process of "becoming" for domestic students and international students. What…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs