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Title Becoming a scholar : cross-cultural reflections on identity and agency in an education doctorate / edited by Maria Savva, Lynn P. Nygaard.

Publication Info. London : UCL Press, 2021.
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 179 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references and index.
Summary In Becoming a Scholar nine mature, part-time, international students reflect on the transformation they each underwent while enrolled in a professional doctorate programme. Their narratives provide breadth and depth to themes that represent a diverse cross-section of cultures, identities and communities.
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 01, 2021).
Contents Belonging and becoming in academia: a conceptual framework -- A tale of two languages: first-language attrition and second-language immersion -- I found my tribe online: belonging in the context of precarity -- A view of the Western university through the eyes of a non-Western student -- Navigating the pass: distance, dislocation and the viva -- Understanding the personal significance of our academic choices -- Academic identity interrupted: reconciling issues of culture, discipline and profession -- Into the fray: becoming an academic in my own right -- The cultural encounters of women on the periphery -- The 'peripheral' student in academia: an analysis.
Subject Degrees, Academic.
Graduate students.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Degrees, Academic
Graduate students
Added Author Savva, Maria, editor.
Nygaard, Lynn P., editor.
Other Form: Print version: 1787357678 9781787357679 (OCoLC)1198218699
ISBN 9781787357693 (electronic book)
1787357694 (electronic book)
9781787357662 (electronic book)
178735766X (electronic book)
9781787357709 (Kindle electronic book)
1787357708 (Kindle electronic book)
1787357678
9781787357679
1787357686
9781787357686
1787357708
Standard No. AU@ 000068889842
UKMGB 020087459
AU@ 000070045187
AU@ 000068798000

 
    
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