The emergence of the nontraditional doctorate: A historical overview

✍ Scribed by Douglas Archbald

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 67 KB
• Volume: 2011
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1052-2891
• DOI: 10.1002/ace.396

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The nontraditional doctorate is a relatively recent development in the long history of the doctoral degree. Understanding what makes a doctoral degree “nontraditional” requires describing its key features in relation to those of the traditional doctorate and embedding this analysis in a historical context.