ABSTRACT

This article reconsiders narratives of the doctoral journey. It aims to contribute to a small but growing body of work which offers an irruption to widely accepted notions of learning as a linear pathway with a fixed end-point. The article engages two of Deleuze and Guattari’s many generative concepts: rhizome and becoming. In doing so, it explores the value of attending to the multiple and messy becomings that researchers experience, as they evolve throughout a doctorate and beyond. It focuses on how such an unsettling may be foregrounded by the increasing prevalence of new forms and possibilities for doctoral study, and it explores the textual implications of disrupting assumptions regarding doctoral writing. The article closes with considering what such a re-theorising might offer for our understanding of doctoral study and doctoral writing, as well as for the broader concepts of time, learning and change within higher education.

摘要

本文重新考虑了博士历程的叙述。它的目的是为一个小的但不断增长的工作做出贡献，这为广泛接受的学习观念（具有固定终点的线性途径）提供了突破。本文涉及Deleuze和Guattari的许多生成概念中的两个：根茎和成语。通过这样做，它探索了研究人员在整个博士学位期间及以后的发展过程中经历的多重和混乱局面的价值。它着重于如何通过新形式的盛行和博士研究的可能性来预示这种不安，并探讨了颠覆有关博士写作的假设的文本含义。本文最后考虑了这样的重新理论化可以为我们对博士研究和博士论文的理解提供什么，