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The Trouble with Doctoral Aspiration Now
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Burford, James – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2018
This article attends to the affective-political dimensions of doctoral aspiration. It considers why doctoral students continue to hope for an 'academic good life' in spite of the depressed and precarious features of the academic present. The article emerges from 2013 research with ten doctoral students in the Arts and Social Sciences, at a…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Social Theories