Becoming a Scholar: Cross-Cultural Reflections on Identity and Agency in an Education Doctorate

Cover\nHalf-title\nTitle page\nCopyright information\nTable of contents\nList of contributors\nForeword\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\n	Coming together as a cohort\n	Milestones in the EdD\n	Reflecting on the journey\n		Chapter 1: Belonging and becoming in academia: a conceptual framework (Lynn P. Nygaard and Maria Savva)\n		Chapter 2: A tale of two languages: first-language attrition and second-language immersion (Barbora Necas and Susi Poli)\n		Chapter 3: I found my tribe online: belonging in the context of precarity (Muireann O’Keeffe)\n		Chapter 4: A view of the Western university through the eyes of a non-Western student (Mohammad Abdrabboh)\n		Chapter 5: Navigating the pass: distance, dislocation and the viva (David Channon, with Maria Savva and Lynn P. Nygaard)\n		Chapter 6: Understanding the personal significance of academic choices (Maria Savva)\n		Chapter 7: Academic identity interrupted: reconciling issues of culture, discipline and profession (Rab Paterson)\n		Chapter 8: Into the fray: becoming an academic in my own right (Lynn P. Nygaard)\n		Chapter 9: The cultural encounters of women on the periphery (Safa Bukhatir and Susi Poli)\n		Chapter 10: The ‘peripheral’ student in academia: an analysis (Maria Savva and Lynn P. Nygaard)\n1 Belonging and becoming in academia: a conceptual framework\n	The complexity of scholarly identity\n	Embarking on a doctoral journey in the changing landscape of academia\n	Learning to be a researcher\n	Supervision and other support\n	Making choices and forging a path\n	References\n2 A tale of two languages: first-language attrition and second-language immersion\n	Writing on linguistic and professional identities together (Barbora)\n	Susi’s story: leaving home behind\n	Barbora’s story: returning ‘home’\n	Final considerations: Susi’s position\n	Final considerations: Barbora’s position\n	References\n3 I found my tribe online: belonging in the context of precarity\n	Undertaking a doctorate in a precarious environment\n	Identifying a twenty-first-century research topic\n	Next generation doctoral support\n	From margin to centre: developing my voice online\n	From the doctorate to academic life\n	It’s not what you achieve ...\n	Conclusion\n	References\n4 A view of the Western university through the eyes of a non-Western student\n	Cultural misconceptions and biases\n	Unfamiliarity with relevant power relations\n	The informed consent dilemma\n	The audio-taped interview\n	Institutional implications\n	Conclusion\n	References\n5 Navigating the pass: distance, dislocation and the viva\n	Editors’ introduction\n	The context and author\n	Positions, orientations, trajectories\n	Authorship and authenticity\n	Dislocation and distance\n	The viva defence\n	Climbing out of the avalanche: coping with major revisions\n	Post-operative\n	Being there counts\n	References\n6 Understanding the personal significance of our academic choices\n	Selecting a research topic\n	A dialectical past\n	Transitioning into education\n	Motivation in doctoral pursuit: EdD or PhD?\n	Academic choices, agency and resilience\n	Life after the doctorate\n	References\n7 Academic identity interrupted: reconciling issues of culture, discipline and profession\n	From the classroom to the shipyards: discovering professional communities of practice\n	From the shipyards back to the classroom: developing an academic teaching identity\n	Culture shift: evolving as an academic in Asia\n	Back to the drawing board: new schools of thought and technological adjustments\n	What is a fact?\n	Life in Japan: cultural, financial and social issues\n	Summing up\n	References\n8 Into the fray: becoming an academic in my own right\n	From accidental to purposeful professional\n	Jumping into the fray\n	You are what you read: finding the right literature\n	Is this research yet?\n	Transforming research to writing\n	The view from the other end: receiving feedback\n	Stretching out the doctoral journey: saying ‘yes’ to everything\n	Writing: interrupted\n	Becoming an academic\n	References\n9 The cultural encounters of women on the periphery\n	Reflections on language and culture\n	Our learning journeys\n	Being an Arab woman in British academia (Safa)\n	Being a Western, foreign and ‘difficult’ woman in academia (Susi)\n	Reflections on our learning\n	References\n10 The ‘peripheral’ student in academia: an analysis\n	The ‘peripheral’ student and belonging\n	Supervisory and faculty relationships\n	Identity, language and culture\n	Scholarly identity: the expert, the novice and the impostor\n	Concluding remarks\n	References\nIndex