"Losing and Retreating"or"Losing and Fighting Repeatedly":Autoethnography of the Failure Experience of Doctoral Students Majoring in Vocational and Technical Education
The autoethnography tells the author's failure experience as a doctoral student majoring in vocational and technical education.The study found that the failure experience of doctoral students stems from the gap between academic pursuit and learning reality.Under the influence of social comparison,doctoral students tend to have a sense of relative deprivation,which weakens their academic confidence in conducting research activities.At the same time,the experience of failure can guide doctoral students to reflect and adjust their action strategies,help them face practical challenges with a positive attitude,improve their academic temperament,temper their research perseverance,and sharpen their research toughness in the research adversity.The theoretical contribution of this study is to apply social comparison theory to the qualitative analysis of doctoral students'failure experience,so as to reveal the influence mechanism of social comparison on doctoral students'academic self-confidence and self-worth.The corresponding enlightenment is to remind individuals that in the face of failure experience,they should adjust the comparison standard between the inner and outer world,actively reflect and adjust the follow-up action,turn the failure experience into a key opportunity to promote their own development,and respond to the constantly emerging challenges in reality with a positive attitude.
vocational and technical educationdoctoral studentsfailure experienceautoethnographysocial comparison theory
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