Women Scholars

Navigating the Doctoral Journey

By: Jelane A. Kennedy (Editor), Beverly A. Burnell (Editor)

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Hardcover | 12 December 2018

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Over and over, studies have concluded that the doctoral experience is a monumental challenge in higher education, particularly for women. This book, Women Scholars: Navigating the Doctoral Journey, provides an enlightening ethnographic look at women and their doctoral developmental experiences. The book's aim is to empower women to be able to contextualize their experience while also offering support and inspiring readers to consider alternative ways to successfully approach the doctoral process. Women anticipating and entering the life of academia will benefit from the voices and experiences shared by the women scholars in this book.

The essay writers in this volume offer an examination of critical incidents in their doctoral experiences and offer strategies they have found helpful in managing those incidents. The book also addresses challenges presented by the transition from doctoral study to post-doc employment. The volume presents 46 essays from 40 women representing a range of ages, ethnicities, academic disciplines, sexual orientations, family circumstances, and family educational histories. Their stories are told in five stages:

Stage 1: Preadmission to Enrollment

Stage 2: First Year of Program

Stage 3: Second Year Through Candidacy

Stage 4: The Dissertation Stage

Stage 5: Completion and Transition to Employment

These are stories of empowerment, of pitfalls and barriers overcome, of successful negotiations of the graduate school process, of the joys and challenges of scholarly pursuits, of positive help-seeking behaviors and strategies, and of life after the dissertation is completed.

Potential applicants for doctoral studies will walk away with a sense that graduate education is possible and that one can be successful. Higher educators in doctoral programs, as well, will acquire a deeper understanding and appreciation for the idiosyncratic challenges facing their female students and, one hopes, develop policies and/or strategies and behaviors that empower and encourage these students' completion of their doctoral studies.

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"Professors Kennedy and Burnell have captured generalized guidelines and tactical advice for pursuing doctoral education in their new book. Divided into multiple chapters, each begins with an overview of the phases or stages of doctoral education that will be of use to those considering this pursuit or in the throes of it. . . . The more compelling aspects are the stories of women from all walks who chose this path and their lived experiences while doing so. Practical, heart-wrenching, inspiring, compelling, and cause for personal reflection by every reader, this compilation shows the current state of doctoral studies from the inside out. Future graduate students and current faculty need to critically consider the stories included here if we want to improve the opportunities and possibilities for all women."

-Marilyn J. Amey, Mildred B. Erickson Endowed Chair, Professor and Chair, Department of Educational Administration, Michigan State University

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