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Download full textMiddleton, Sue – 2001
Michel Foucault wrote of the "well-managed life" as one that would require a certain "care of the self." As a preliminary to the exploration of the care of the self as a scholar, this paper explores why scholars choose to live the "researching life" in the first place. The experiences of 57 people who completed Ph.D.s…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Doctoral Programs, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
Middleton, Sue – 2001
This study followed 57 New Zealand candidates for a Ph.D. in Education through the years of writing their theses, focusing on their internal struggles and how these affected, and were affected by, those with whom they had close relationships. Their efforts to balance the scholarly, professional, interpersonal, and domestic dimensions of life, a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Doctoral Programs, Family Relationship, Foreign Countries
