Symposium introduction and history: the background.

The School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of fifteen education departments nationwide selected to participate in the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID)--a five-year research and action project to examine the character of doctoral education, regardless of department or program, in the United States and to explore ways of restructuring doctoral programs to better prepare graduates for research and employment. Begun in 2003, CID is a project of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching based in Stanford, California. The following symposium originated out of several meetings between professors and graduate students concerning the character and direction of the Ph. D. in education; these meetings are affectionately referred to as the CID.

An enduring question from these meetings, a haunting specter if y...

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