Book Chapter

The Graduate School in the Sky

Dahlgren, Madeleine Abrandt, Nyström, Sofia, Lee, Alison, Grosjean, Garnet

2012,2011

Overview

This chapter discusses a set of pedagogical practices associated with the establishment of an international online doctoral education network, Doctoralnet. Our title refers to the work of bringing together a set of people and circumstances to attempt to build a virtual graduate school, an international community of researchers and doctoral students working in a single extended field. This field is the complex, extensive and multi-dimensional field of education and learning in adult life, drawing in spheres such as higher education, professional education (including specific professions such as health), vocational education, professional and workplace learning, organisational learning and online and e-learning beyond childhood and school. The reference to emergence in our title signals how our experiences of conceiving, planning, designing and enacting this network have involved sequences of activities and engagements with technologies, systems, structures, beliefs and assumptions that could never have been fully worked out in advance, but which came together over time to create the conditions in which the network has its life. It is this complexity that we are concerned to try and represent in our discussion of the pedagogical work that emerged in Doctoralnet. At the same time we see the pedagogical work in Doctoralnet as offering insights into the challenges and opportunities of building doctoral education in an international context.

• Publisher: Routledge
• Subject: Doctor of philosophy degree -- United States / Doktorsavhandlingar -- Förenta staterna / Education / Pedagogik / SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP / SOCIAL SCIENCES / Socialvetenskap / Universitet -- Förenta staterna / Universities and colleges -- United States -- Graduate work
• ISBN: 0415618126, 9780415618137, 9780415618120, 0415618134