Ryan Reflections on Learning, Life and Work

Completing Doctoral Studies in Mid and Later Life and Career
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-94-6209-025-5
Verlag: Sense Publishers
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 284 Seiten, eBook

This book records the stories of doctoral study experiences of the twenty-two writers. These research degree experiences are embedded in the lives and careers of the writers and the twenty-two distinctive projects draw from those individual lives and careers. The authors write about meeting the continuing demands of older and younger family members and of their struggles with ill health and work place demands while working through their studies. There is also the joy of coming to see themselves and being seen as research scholars and supporting and celebrating with others as they move through candidature proposals and ethics applications to graduation.
Apart from the stories that bring the writers to their particular projects and that colour their individual journeys, storying methodology is most often selected for the research, all of which is undertaken within the arts, humanities and education. Phenomenology, narrative, ethnography are central to most of the studies and the detailed accounts of each research topic, methods and outcomes locate each of the research projects in rich bodies of knowledge. Valued writers and readers in these fields, Mary Beattie and Elaine Martin have read each reflection and provided in turn a foreword and an afterword which bookend the volume and further enrich these reflections on learning, life and work.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ryan, Maureen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1: Seeking Time Out to Reflect in Doctoral Study; Reflection 1: Researching Culture, Realising Self; Reflection 2: Australia and September 11; Reflection 3: Timely Intervention – Before It’s Too Hard; Reflection 4: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime; Part 2: The Influence of Life Experience on Research Topic Selection; Reflection 5: Through Music to Postgraduate Study; Reflection 6: The Call to Individuation; Reflection 7: Battles, Bed and the Ph.D.; Reflection 8: Living Knowledge to the Edge; Reflection 9: Reframing My Landscape; Reflection 10: Pamela Anderson, Durer and Herrenvolk; Reflection 11: A Precarious Path...with Heart; Part 3: The Influence of Work Experience on Research Topic Selection; Reflection 12: So You Think You Will Pursue a Ph.D.; Reflection 13: Muted Voices; Reflection 14: Swimming with Piranha; Reflection 15: Life, Research and a Baby; Reflection 16: Why I Became a Teacher Activist; Part 4: Ways Forward after the Doctorate; Reflection 17: Voyages; Reflection 18: There is Life after the Doctorate; Reflection 19: Never Give In; Reflection 20: Learning to Become an Academic; Reflection 21: The Immortal Now; Reflection 22: Releasing the Apsara; Afterword.