Daring the Doctorate

The Journey at Mid-Career

Ada Demb (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

196 Seiten

2012
Rowman & Littlefield Education (Verlag)
978-1-61048-694-1 (ISBN)

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One of the best kept secrets about doctoral education is the large proportion of students who are mid-career. Yet, few researchers focus on these students. Daring the Doctorate is the first major work to address the life circumstances of these mid-career doctoral students. Based on the experiences of fifteen successful graduates, the author develops perspectives and frameworks to assist those contemplating doctoral study, as well as faculty and staff advisors and even recent graduates who wonder whether only they found the road to graduation so complicated.

In this thorough guide to the doctorate degree, study participants speak freely about their reasons for pursuing doctorates, as well as the financial, personal, intellectual and professional challenges they faced. Their circumstances reflect a variety of situations: single, married and partnered; some mothers and fathers; male and female; some as young as twenty-six, and others approaching their middle ages. We learn about their passion for learning, about guilt and isolation, the time pressures, the exhilaration, and key supporting roles played by family, peers, advisors, mentors, Wizards and Guardians. We come away with a profound appreciation of the courage and tenacity of these talented individuals and a better understanding of how to help others like them succeed.

An associate professor in the Higher Education & Student Affairs Program at The Ohio State University since 1992 (now Emeritus), Ada Demb has supervised twenty-one doctoral students to completion and has taught courses about strategy and leadership, academic affairs, internationalization, and technology. She earned her Ed.D. at Harvard University. For more than thirty years, she has focused on the policies, procedures, and structures that affect human behavior in organizations. This is her fourth book.

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1—Doctoral Students & Project Participants
Part I—Timing
Chapter 2—Why the Doctorate Now?
Chapter 3—What’s so Different about Mid-Career?
Part II—The Emotional Reality
Chapter 4—Fear, Costs, Guilt, Isolation
Chapter 5—Challenges & Exhilaration
Part III—The Supporting Cast
Chapter 6—Insiders and Outsiders
Chapter 7—Advisors and Mentors
Chapter —8Images that Illuminate
Part IV—The Never-Ending Journey
Chapter 9—Transformations
Chapter10—Broadening Perspectives
Chapter 11—Reflections
Appendix—Research Design and Methodology
References

Verlagsort	Lanham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	177 x 252 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-61048-694-3 / 1610486943
ISBN-13	978-1-61048-694-1 / 9781610486941
Zustand	Neuware