TY - BOOK AU - Savva,Maria AU - Nygaard,Lynn P. TI - Becoming a scholar: cross-cultural reflections on identity and agency in an education doctorate SN - 9781787357693 AV - LB2371 .B43 2021 PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - UCL Press KW - Degrees, Academic KW - Graduate students KW - EDUCATION KW - Higher KW - Electronic books N1 - Belonging and becoming in academia: a conceptual framework -- A tale of two languages: first-language attrition and second-language immersion -- I found my tribe online: belonging in the context of precarity -- A view of the Western university through the eyes of a non-Western student -- Navigating the pass: distance, dislocation and the viva -- Understanding the personal significance of our academic choices -- Academic identity interrupted: reconciling issues of culture, discipline and profession -- Into the fray: becoming an academic in my own right -- The cultural encounters of women on the periphery -- The 'peripheral' student in academia: an analysis N2 - In Becoming a Scholar nine mature, part-time, international students reflect on the transformation they each underwent while enrolled in a professional doctorate programme. Their narratives provide breadth and depth to themes that represent a diverse cross-section of cultures, identities and communities UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv17ppc4v ER -