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III. Science, Research (Science Legislation, Research Structure, Research Organisations, Research Funding)
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author ENDERS, Jürgen
Title Border crossings : research training, knowledge dissemination and the transformation of academic work
Publication year 2005
Source/Footnote In: Higher education. - 49 (2005) 1 - 2, S. 119 - 133
Inventory number 18970
Keywords Ausland : Europa : Hochschulwesen allgemein ; Ausland : Europa : Forschung ; Promotion : allgemein ; Graduiertenstudien, Graduiertenkollegs
Abstract At the crossroads of current innovation policies towards a European Research Area (ERA) and a European Higher Education Area (EHEA) lies an important province of higher learning and research: doctoral training and the further careers of PhD graduates. A considerable number of higher education systems across Europe shift their paradigms for doctoral training away from the traditional so-called Humboldtian model towards the so-called professional model. On this background, the paper discusses (1) the German pattern of a strong link of the PhD to the labor market outside academe that is based on a traditional academic-disciplinary mode of apprenticeship training, and (2) approaches that argue for a new mode of knowledge production replacing an academic-disciplinary model of research training by a hybrid model that crosses disciplinary and organizational borders. The paper argues that a diversity of organisational and structural forms as well as different validation criteria and procedures will probably determine the future face of research training. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)