The Nordic doctorate at a crossroads between Bildung, schoolification and projectification
Bengtsen, Søren ; Sonesson, Anders LU
and Ahlberg, Anders
LU
(2019)
SRHE International Conference on Research into Higher Education
p.86-86
- Abstract
- The Nordic doctorate has its roots in the Germanic Bildung-tradition, with a decentralised and discipline-oriented curriculum, local and individualised leadership and autonomous supervisors. Currently, the Nordic doctorate has arrived at a crossroads where it is pulled in two different directions. The first characterised by formalisation and centralised Graduate Schools with study directors, middle-management and educational bureaucracy, and an increasingly generic curriculum. The second characterised by the projectification of academic work through new modes of governance on national and EU-level. The double pull threatens to create a ‘torn curriculum’, where curricular planning, formal requirements, and supervision and community support... (More)
- The Nordic doctorate has its roots in the Germanic Bildung-tradition, with a decentralised and discipline-oriented curriculum, local and individualised leadership and autonomous supervisors. Currently, the Nordic doctorate has arrived at a crossroads where it is pulled in two different directions. The first characterised by formalisation and centralised Graduate Schools with study directors, middle-management and educational bureaucracy, and an increasingly generic curriculum. The second characterised by the projectification of academic work through new modes of governance on national and EU-level. The double pull threatens to create a ‘torn curriculum’, where curricular planning, formal requirements, and supervision and community support are not aligned, which confuses and fragments the learning journey and the PhD-degree. We argue that a new way is needed, which lies not in choosing either tradition, but to form a societally oriented, community anchored, and at the same time highly specialised and research-driven doctorate. (Less)
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- author
- Bengtsen, Søren
; Sonesson, Anders
LU
and Ahlberg, Anders
LU
- organization
- alternative title
- Nordisk forskarutbildning vid ett vägskäl mellan Bildung, skolifiering och projektifiering
- publishing date
- 2019-12-11
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Doctoral education, doctoral supervision, educational policy, doctoral curriculum, doctoral pedagogy
- pages
- 1 pages
- conference name
- SRHE International Conference on Research into Higher Education
- conference location
- Newport, United Kingdom
- conference dates
- 2019-12-11 - 2019-12-13
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- d4b8c752-2e4d-4439-b0a6-25898ec997d4
- alternative location
- https://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2019/downloads/SRHE_ARC_Abstracts_2019.pdf#page=88
- date added to LUP
- 2020-02-12 11:37:39
- date last changed
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