Doctoral Education and Skills Development: An International and Historical Perspective

ABSTRACTDoctoral education has undergone, in recent years, a revolution paralleling changes in modern society. In the last two decades, the world has witnessed a wave of doctoral education reforms, driven by government funding cuts, a...

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Autor principal:	Cristina Poyatos Matas
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2bac36b6a3a8420d8d67658187ccf0162021-12-02T13:57:55ZDoctoral Education and Skills Development: An International and Historical Perspective1887-45921887-4592https://doaj.org/article/2bac36b6a3a8420d8d67658187ccf0162012-08-01T00:00:00Zhttp://red-u.net/redu/index.php/REDU/article/view/390https://doaj.org/toc/1887-4592https://doaj.org/toc/1887-4592<p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p><p>Doctoral education has undergone, in recent years, a revolution paralleling changes in modern society. In the last two decades, the world has witnessed a wave of doctoral education reforms, driven by government funding cuts, as well as by increasing demands from employers and graduates to train doctoral students for an ever-changing competitive job market, which goes beyond the walls of academia.</p> <p>With an historical view of doctoral education, and paying special attention to the process of Bologna taking place in Europe, this article explores the nature of the Ph.D., as well as how its initial traditional conceptualisation has evolved and diversified, driven by educational policy and changes to higher education funding, into new models of doctoral education relevant to our current society. It discusses, from an international perspective, how different higher education institutions are approaching the task of equipping doctoral students with transferable or generic skills, as well as specific, in order to educate active and sustainable researchers for the competitive international knowledge based societies of the 21<sup>st</sup> century that they would serve.</p><p> </p> <p><strong>RESUMEN</strong></p><p><strong>Educación doctoral y desarrollo de competencias: Una perspectiva internacional</strong></p><p>La educación doctoral ha vivido durante los últimos años cambios drásticos equivalentes a los vividos por nuestra sociedad. Durante las últimas dos décadas, el mundo ha sido testigo de una ola de reformas educativas del mundo doctoral, alimentada por recortes gubernamentales, la comercialización, internacionalización y racionalización del sector universitario, la evaluación de la calidad de la educación doctoral, a la vez que por las crecientes demandas por parte de empleadores y graduados, de formar a los doctorandos para un mundo laboral competitivo y cambiante. Un mundo laboral que va más allá de los muros del mundo académico.</p> <p>Presentando una visión histórica de la educación doctoral a nivel internacional, y prestando especial atención al proceso de Bolonia que está teniendo lugar en Europa, este artículo investiga la naturaleza de los distintos modelos de doctorado, y cómo su conceptualización inicial ha evolucionado y se ha diversificado en nuevos modelos de educación doctoral, relevante para nuestra sociedad actual, debido a cambios en política educativa y en formas de financiar al sector universitario. Comenta, desde un punto de vista internacional, cómo distintas instituciones universitarias están proporcionando competencias transferibles o genéricas, además de específicas, para educar investigadores activos y sostenibles para la sociedad internacional del conocimiento del siglo XXI.</p>Cristina Poyatos MatasUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaarticleDoctoral educationskillsBolognareformpedagogyprofessionalizationemployabilityhistoryEducationLENESRed U, Vol 10, Iss 2, Pp 163-191 (2012)
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description	<p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p><p>Doctoral education has undergone, in recent years, a revolution paralleling changes in modern society. In the last two decades, the world has witnessed a wave of doctoral education reforms, driven by government funding cuts, as well as by increasing demands from employers and graduates to train doctoral students for an ever-changing competitive job market, which goes beyond the walls of academia.</p> <p>With an historical view of doctoral education, and paying special attention to the process of Bologna taking place in Europe, this article explores the nature of the Ph.D., as well as how its initial traditional conceptualisation has evolved and diversified, driven by educational policy and changes to higher education funding, into new models of doctoral education relevant to our current society. It discusses, from an international perspective, how different higher education institutions are approaching the task of equipping doctoral students with transferable or generic skills, as well as specific, in order to educate active and sustainable researchers for the competitive international knowledge based societies of the 21<sup>st</sup> century that they would serve.</p><p> </p> <p><strong>RESUMEN</strong></p><p><strong>Educación doctoral y desarrollo de competencias: Una perspectiva internacional</strong></p><p>La educación doctoral ha vivido durante los últimos años cambios drásticos equivalentes a los vividos por nuestra sociedad. Durante las últimas dos décadas, el mundo ha sido testigo de una ola de reformas educativas del mundo doctoral, alimentada por recortes gubernamentales, la comercialización, internacionalización y racionalización del sector universitario, la evaluación de la calidad de la educación doctoral, a la vez que por las crecientes demandas por parte de empleadores y graduados, de formar a los doctorandos para un mundo laboral competitivo y cambiante. Un mundo laboral que va más allá de los muros del mundo académico.</p> <p>Presentando una visión histórica de la educación doctoral a nivel internacional, y prestando especial atención al proceso de Bolonia que está teniendo lugar en Europa, este artículo investiga la naturaleza de los distintos modelos de doctorado, y cómo su conceptualización inicial ha evolucionado y se ha diversificado en nuevos modelos de educación doctoral, relevante para nuestra sociedad actual, debido a cambios en política educativa y en formas de financiar al sector universitario. Comenta, desde un punto de vista internacional, cómo distintas instituciones universitarias están proporcionando competencias transferibles o genéricas, además de específicas, para educar investigadores activos y sostenibles para la sociedad internacional del conocimiento del siglo XXI.</p>
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Doctoral Education and Skills Development: An International and Historical Perspective

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