- Title
- Now I know why I have been knocking my head against a brick wall: doctoral candidates and stuck places
- Creator
- Kiley, Margaret
- Relation
- 6th Annual Conference of the National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NAIRTL) and the 4th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference. Threshold Concepts: from Personal Practice to Communities of Practice: Proceedings of the National Academy's Sixth Annual Conference and the Fourth Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference (Dublin 27-29 June, 2012) p. 73-77
- Relation
- http://www.nairtl.ie/index.php?pageID=27&eventID=310
- Publisher
- National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NAIRTL)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- The research reported here was motivated by a comment from a doctoral candidate. I had asked her, as a Research Assistant not as a candidate working with me, to check a manuscript on Threshold Concepts in doctoral education in preparation for publication. Her main comment after reading the paper was, “If only I’d known that I was just in a stuck place it would have made it so much easier”. So began work with doctoral candidates to help them understand doctoral study as: an extended period of learning where the candidate might be in a liminal state until crossing the threshold of completion and ‘graduation’, and a period made up of a number of threshold crossings as candidates understand the various concepts that challenge them (Kiley, 2009), each preceded by a state of liminality and maybe being in a ‘stuck place’.
- Subject
- PhD; stuck place; research education; threshold concepts
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1064574
- Identifier
- uon:17597
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781906642594
- Language
- eng
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