Becoming a Scholar
Cross-cultural reflections on identity and agency in an education doctorate
Edited by Maria Savva and Lynn P. Nygaard
Becoming a Scholar provides a window into the lives of nine non-traditional doctoral students. As mature, part-time, international students enrolled in a professional doctorate programme, they reflect on the transformation process of becoming scholars, and their narratives provide breadth and depth to themes that represent a diverse cross-section of cultures, identities and communities.
Recognising that the process of becoming a scholar is as much internal as it is external, the book provides an opportunity to engage with authentic personal stories that remain firmly rooted in academic literature. By bringing the ‘human face’ behind the doctoral journey to the forefront, the narratives draw much-needed attention to the personal journey that inevitably parallels and intersects with the academic journey. Although the narratives are drawn from a professional Doctor in Education (EdD) programme based in the UK, the struggles are sure to resonate with a much wider range of doctoral students and academics, sparking lively discussion, debate and reflection. A must-read for students preparing to embark on the doctoral journey, and essential reading for doctoral programmes that wish to equip students with important knowledge about the challenges ahead.
Maria Savva is Associate Professor and Director of International
Studies, at the City University of New York’s LaGuardia campus.
Lynn P. Nygaard is a special advisor at the
Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway.
List of contributors
Foreword
Bryan Cunningham
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Lynn P. Nygaard and Maria Savva
2. A tale of two languages: first-language attrition and second-language immersion
Barbora Necas and Susi Poli
3. I found my tribe online: belonging in the context of precarity
Muireann O’Keeffe
4. A view of the Western university through the eyes of a non-Western student
Mohammad Abdrabboh (Al-Batran)
5. Navigating the pass: distance, dislocation and the viva
David Channon, with Maria Savva and Lynn P. Nygaard
6. Understanding the personal significance of our academic choices
Maria Savva
7. Academic identity interrupted: reconciling issues of culture, discipline and profession
Rab Paterson
8. Into the fray: becoming an academic in my own right
Lynn P. Nygaard
9. The cultural encounters of women on the periphery
Safa Bukhatir and Susi Poli
10. The ‘peripheral’ student in academia: an analysis
Maria Savva and Lynn P. Nygaard
Index
Format: Hardback
Size: 234 × 156 mm
192 Pages
Copyright: © 2021
ISBN: 9781787357686
Publication: March 01, 2021
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