Becoming a Scholar : : cross-cultural reflections on identity and agency in an education doctorate / / edited by Maria Savva, Lynn P. Nygaard.

In Becoming a Scholar nine mature, part-time, international students reflect on the transformation they each underwent while enrolled in a professional doctorate programme. Their narratives provide breadth and depth to themes that represent a diverse cross-section of cultures, identities and communi...

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Place / Publishing House:London : : UCL Press,, 2021.
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 179 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Belonging and becoming in academia: a conceptual framework
  • A tale of two languages: first-language attrition and second-language immersion
  • I found my tribe online: belonging in the context of precarity
  • A view of the Western university through the eyes of a non-Western student
  • Navigating the pass: distance, dislocation and the viva
  • Understanding the personal significance of our academic choices
  • Academic identity interrupted: reconciling issues of culture, discipline and profession
  • Into the fray: becoming an academic in my own right
  • The cultural encounters of women on the periphery
  • The 'peripheral' student in academia: an analysis.