Postgraduate students’ and university lecturers’ views about postgraduate education in the process of educating scientist

Abstract

The aim of this research thought as a qualitative study are to present the university lecturers’ and the doctoral students’ profiles as scientists and to determine their views about the role of postgraduate education in educating scientist process. In this context, first the answer for the question “Who is scientist?” was tried to be found and then the characteristics which should be in a scientist were examined by the point of view of both postgraduate student and lecturer. The views of both lecturers and postgraduate students about the functions of postgraduate education were also considered. In data collection “Interview Form Related to Scientist and Postgraduate Education” prepared with the help of expert ideas is used. 10 doctoral students from each university continuing their postgraduate education in Gazi University and Ankara University in the academic year 2010-2011 and 10 lecturers were taken into interview. Data were analyzed by using descriptive analysis and content analysis methods. It is considered that the results of this research are important as it shows different meanings between the views of university lecturers and postgraduate students about the roles of postgraduate education and higher education institutes in educating scientist process.