结论
候选人是施加控制的主要能动者,在关键的学术与职业环境中发挥这种能动性,是此类博士学位对个人及其工作场所或专业领域产生影响的基础。因此,“自我的项目”就被看作一项必要的事业,它处于地方化的环境中,具有辨识度,候选人也具有一定的位置性情(positionality)。关注这种新的“有影响力的自我”,为当前有关职业博士学位的讨论增加了一个特别的维度。博士学位的工作包括培养实践者,提高他们管理和创造对组织有潜在影响的项目的能力。候选人不仅要知道什么情况下做什么工作,还要知道如何将自己当作一名实践者来培养。DProf项目能够在学术能力和职业专长两个方面实质性地提高博士的能力。这个过程本身就是成果的重要组成部分——基于个人的自我成就、工作投入和自身持续发展的学问。
DProf 项目有一系列特征,例如获得自我认知;在复杂而充满活力的实践共同体中与他人合作;创造新知识,从而增加共同体的基本资源。我们看到了抽象的、与人相关的、以前被低估的知识参与其中。通过综合各种信息而创造的知识,为项目带来了可被感知到的结果,这些成果在负责任的价值观和伦理考量中具有积极的作用。这种多样化和批判性的思维、群体知识构建,以及对任何将会发生的事情都无法进行规划的开放式过程,可以带来高价值的学习。
为专业人士及其组织和/或专业领域提供更多机会与发展前景,包括利用高等教育所提供的宝贵资源与各个领域的专业人士进行卓有成效的接触。大学必须从结构和知识创造、认知和使用的角度跨学科进行思考。这些项目提供了创新、成为知识的创造者和关键使用者,从而带来变革并对专业实践产生积极影响的方法。通过将项目的重点放到大学外部的工作环境中,同时承认并将批判性思维、研究专长和学术界的其他特征与社区和专业领域面临的现实问题联系起来,这一目标得以实现。
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