Scholar to Practitioner: A New Paradigm for Research Chairs

Scholar to Practitioner: A New Paradigm for Research Chairs

Christina Maria Anastasia, Debra D. Burrington
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5602-6.ch015
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Abstract

Traditionally, the role of the research supervisor/dissertation chair has been to support the doctoral student with the goal of making the student a scholar through the research conducted for the dissertation. In the traditional research institution environment this research was designed to build theory. Today, while this research tradition still exists and the doctor of philosophy degree continues to be awarded, a shift has occurred in the higher education landscape such that a practice-oriented type of research is being produced in practitioner doctorate programs. Dissertations in the practitioner doctorate should be focused on research that has as its objective solving real world problems. As such, this may be a difficult change for individuals who have been mentoring doctoral students for years with the goal of building or testing theory over application of theory. Seasoned research supervisors/dissertation chairs educated in a research doctorate environment may resist this change, even as they supervise doctoral students studying in a practitioner doctorate environment.
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Dissertation Research Mentoring For The Scholar-Practitioner Model

The focus of this chapter is to provide a deeper understanding of how traditional doctoral chairs mentor their students using traditional concepts when the goal of the research is to apply research in an organizational setting. While some of the underlying concepts of research remain grounded in research philosophy, the overall framework of research incorporating the scholar practitioner model does not align with traditional models that focus on researching theory as opposed to applying theory. The chapter covers the traditional research philosophies and advances to discuss the confusion between theory advancement to theory application, which is the foundation of the scholar-practitioner or applied research model. Throughout the chapter there are several terms used to describe a dissertation chair including mentor and supervisor depending on the literature. The chapter addresses traditional roles of scholars, fundamental philosophies of research, and the future of theory-applied research over theory advancement research.

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