Overview
- Brings a refreshing urgency to the question of the purpose of doctoral education
- Discusses refashioning PhD programs to meet pressing global issues
- Showcases innovative new models of doctoral education from across the world
- Brings a range of new voices alongside leading doctoral education scholars
Part of the book series: Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives (DHEP, volume 4)
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Keywords
- PhD addressing global issues
- Environmental issues and education
- Sustainability education
- PhD and sustainability education
- Role of the PhD in climate crisis
- Role of the PhD in in global challenges
- Environmental crisis and epistemological crisis
- Bruno Latour
- Ronald Barnett
- PhD in Artificial Intelligence Times
- Sustainable PhD
- Ecological ontology
- Education and equity studies
- Future of higher education
- Post-truth
Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Down to Earth – The PhD Lived-Experience
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Earthing the PhD Curriculum
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Earthing Beyond the PhD
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Theorising an Earthy PhD
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Denise Cuthbert is the Dean of the School of Graduate Research at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests are focused in two main areas: adoption, family formation, children and mothers and higher education research with a focus on research education and researcher development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The PhD at the End of the World
Book Subtitle: Provocations for the Doctorate and a Future Contested
Editors: Robyn Barnacle, Denise Cuthbert
Series Title: Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62219-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62218-3Published: 03 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62221-3Published: 04 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62219-0Published: 02 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2366-2573
Series E-ISSN: 2366-2581
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 212
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Philosophy of Education, Educational Philosophy, Environmental and Sustainability Education