Am I Supposed to Create Knowledge?: Pedagogical Challenges of Doctoral Mentors
This paper discusses the nature and characteristics of doctoral dissertation learning and the role of mentor in the dissertation stage. Doctoral level education requires a considerable degree of learner’s independent thinking. While independence has been discussed as a personal trait or in relation...
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| description | This paper discusses the nature and characteristics of doctoral dissertation learning and the role of mentor in the dissertation stage. Doctoral level education requires a considerable degree of learner’s independent thinking. While independence has been discussed as a personal trait or in relation to the socialization of doctoral education, independence has rarely been discussed as a higher level of cognitive development necessary to create new knowledge. When students transition from a consumer of knowledge to a creator/owner of knowledge, they are required to adopt a new epistemology, i.e., a new way of knowing. How do doctoral advisors/mentors successfully open students to a new way of knowing? This paper addresses the pedagogical foundations of doctoral advising. Drawing on theories of student-centered pedagogy and self-directed learning, this paper attempts to conceptualize the doctoral supervisor’s role in the case of doctoral supervision. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a30bef5693644e07ba0e5a5aa2397cae2025-08-20T02:43:05ZengÜNİVERSİTEPARK LimitedEducational Process: International Journal2147-09012147-09012019-03-018214515210.22521/edupij.2019.82.5Am I Supposed to Create Knowledge?: Pedagogical Challenges of Doctoral MentorsJung-ah ChoiThis paper discusses the nature and characteristics of doctoral dissertation learning and the role of mentor in the dissertation stage. Doctoral level education requires a considerable degree of learner’s independent thinking. While independence has been discussed as a personal trait or in relation to the socialization of doctoral education, independence has rarely been discussed as a higher level of cognitive development necessary to create new knowledge. When students transition from a consumer of knowledge to a creator/owner of knowledge, they are required to adopt a new epistemology, i.e., a new way of knowing. How do doctoral advisors/mentors successfully open students to a new way of knowing? This paper addresses the pedagogical foundations of doctoral advising. Drawing on theories of student-centered pedagogy and self-directed learning, this paper attempts to conceptualize the doctoral supervisor’s role in the case of doctoral supervision.http://edupij.com/files/1/articles/article_160/EDUPIJ_160_article_5c742c07dddbd.pdfdoctoral mentorknowledgepedagogical challenges |
| spellingShingle | Jung-ah Choi Am I Supposed to Create Knowledge?: Pedagogical Challenges of Doctoral Mentors Educational Process: International Journal doctoral mentor knowledge pedagogical challenges |
| title | Am I Supposed to Create Knowledge?: Pedagogical Challenges of Doctoral Mentors |
| title_full | Am I Supposed to Create Knowledge?: Pedagogical Challenges of Doctoral Mentors |
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| title_short | Am I Supposed to Create Knowledge?: Pedagogical Challenges of Doctoral Mentors |
| title_sort | am i supposed to create knowledge pedagogical challenges of doctoral mentors |
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