EDAMBA-EIASM Doctoral Consortium 2013

The Development of Doctoral Education in the Last 20 Years

Hans Siggaard JensenProfessor of Philosophy of Science

Aarhus University/Campus Copenhagen

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Bio…

• Honorary President, EDAMBA• EDAMBA work: executive committee, EU

relations, summer academy, supervisors workshops

• CBS, LLD, DPU• Chairman Danish Council for Doctoral

Education 2000-2004

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The situation 1991

• Mostly a tradition of apprenticeship research training

• Small programs – if one could talk of programs• The tradition from Wilhelm von Humboldt –

research education the central function of the university

• The professionalization of research in many areas – research based professions

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• The function mainly the supply of academics to academic institutions

• Some conditions for the existence of doctoral education:– a tradition of written (not only oral) examinations– a tradition where students write the thesis– research at the university and an organization with

disciplines or specialities– a locus for research: departments, seminars,

gradudate schools

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• The relation between student and professor

• The situation at business schools:- MBA schools- Schools with “full” academic degrees- Research training marginal

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Some important trends

• The trend towards more formal programs- courses in core areas- courses in transferable skills

• The trend towards doctoral schools in the European area – concentrating minds

• The development of professional doctorates• The general and business-school specific great

growth

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Trends..

• The influence of the US Ph.D. model – and the European influence on it

• The European situation in the shadow of Bologna

• The consequences of globalization – common standards and a global academic labor market

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Changing Conceptions

• The “Kuhnian” conception of doctoral education: socialization into a paradigm

• The “Popperian” conception of doctoral education: problemsolving not puzzle-solving

• The influence of Mode 1 and Mode 2 theories• The interpretation of “a significant

contribution to knowledge”

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Two ideals

• Training in a method and a discipline and how to use the method to contribute to the discipline

• Training in solving problems through the ability to analyze and design research using appropriate methods

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Organization

• The individual researcher as supervisor• The research group/centre as the locus of

learning• The relation to the scientific system – forms of

conversation• Participation through communication – new

media

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Challenges

• Team work • Apprenticeship - assistantship• Interdisciplinarity• Transdisciplinarity• Organization• Communication• Growth

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Thank You!