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Informationen zum Autor The Editors Chris M. Golde is a senior scholar at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where she is research director for the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate. George E. Walker is a senior scholar at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where he directs the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate. Klappentext 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. The essays in this lively and provocative volume focus on six fields of study: chemistry, education, English, history, mathematics, and neuroscience. Three commentaries look across the broad themes of the essays and consider the implications for action for institutional leaders, faculty members, and graduate and postdoctoral students. Each of the book's essayists considers the goals and purposes of doctoral education in their particular field and offer new and invigorating ideas about the doctorate. Taken together, the essays in the volume provide opportunities to compare and contrast doctoral education among the disciplines. The essays provide ideas for fruitful practice, a perspective on doctoral education as a larger enterprise, and visions of what is possible for the future. Zusammenfassung This book contains essays on the topic of the importance of graduate education written by scholars from across all disciplines. It brings together new and invigorating ideas about the doctorate! some of which may be unique to their discipline! but equally applicable across the fields. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Authors. PART ONE: Introduction. 1. Preparing Stewards of the Discipline ( Chris M. Golde ). PART TWO: Commentaries. 2. Who Should Do What : Implications for Institutional and National Leaders ( Kenneth Prewitt ). 3. Vectors of Change ( David Damrosch ). 4. Heeding the Voices of Graduate Students and Postdocs ( Crispin Taylor ). PART THREE: The Essays. 5. Unmasking Uncertainties and Embracing Contradictions: Graduate Education in the Sciences ( Yehuda Elkana ). Doctoral Education in Mathematics. 6. Developing Scholars and Professionals: The Case of Mathematics ( Hyman Bass ). 7. A Time for Change? The Mathematics Doctorate ( Tony F. Chan ). Doctoral Education in Chemistry. 8. Time for Reform? ( Alvin L. Kwiram ). 9. Developing Breadth and Depth of Knowledge: The Doctorate in Chemistry ( Ronald Breslow ). 10. Training Future Leaders ( Angelica M. Stacy ). Doctoral Education in Neuroscience. 11. Maintaining Vitality Through Change: Graduate Education in Neuroscience ( Zach W. Hall ). 12. The Challenges of Multidisciplinarity: N...