Transforming the academic field

Susanne M. Weber

pp. 115-129

in: A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul, Michael A. Peters (eds), Of other thoughts: non-traditional ways to the doctorate, Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 2013

Abstract

The doctorate is a critical and highly relevant phase for academic success. It is also a fragile and risky period (Janson et al. 2006: 572). To understand and shape the academic success of non-traditional candidates, one needs to understand the University as a cultural context, an institutional space of socialisation.