A Narrative Study on"Growing up in Society"of Female Engineering Doctoral Students from the Perspective of Social Mutual Construction
The socialization of doctoral students is a representative perspective for understanding doctoral education and a starting point for improving the doctoral education quality.Using the example of female engineering doctoral students,and drawing on gender theory and the theory of social mutual construction,the author develops an analytical framework of growing up in society for female engineering doctoral students and uses narrative research methods to explore their experiences of doctoral education.The research finds that female engineering doctoral students achieve growing up in society in two dimensions:professional socialization and gender socialization,and at three levels:knowledge,social identity,and emotion.This is the result of the opposing simultaneous changes of female and social environment.The experience of doctoral training has the function of reinforcing or reconstructing order,which has both positive and negative effects on female engineering doctoral students in their growing up in society.As a result,female doctoral students experience"double constraint"and self-conflict under the influence of the professional order and the gender order.The process and characteristics of growing up in society of female engineering doctoral students reflect the confusion and contradiction of human beings through the experience of female students in the process of modernization.Therefore,the author suggests that gender perspectives should be integrated into disciplinary academic research in doctoral education,that gender considerations should be maintained in educational practice,and that female engineering doctoral students should be guided and supported in their growing up in society.
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