Academic Exploration and Advanced Thinking: An Ethnography in the Academic Growth of Sports Doctoral Students

Abstract

Yuanlong CHENG

Backgroun:  Doctoral students are quasi research-oriented scholars who should have a clear understanding of the entire process of scientific research and possess high-level academic achievements during their graduate studies. However, in reality, doctoral students still face many academic confusions, the academic community rarely pays attention to their academic thinking development process from a thematic perspective, and there is a lack of research on the impact of academic exploration on thinking development.

Methods: Only by exploring the academic thinking training of sports doctoral students from the thematic perspective of anthropological case ethnography can we reveal the essence of academic inquiry of doctoral students and the impact of academic inquiry on the advancement of thinking.

Results: Research suggests that the academic exploration of sports doctoral students is a complex process of thinking advancement. From the initial stage of cultivation to independent academic exploration, there will be multiple stages such as confusion, starting, transformation, and deepening of thinking; the cultivation of academic thinking exhibits different characteristics with different stages of academic exploration.

Conclusion: In the initial stage of cultivation, academic writing is the focus, and academic exploration is equated with academic research; Gradually transitioning from academic writing to metacognition of academic thinking in the middle and later stages of training, focusing on the essence of academic research, crossing the limited thinking mode of academic writing, and nurturing professional issues; Throughout the entire training period, academic exploration and advanced academic thinking are not absolutely increasing, but gradually returning to the starting point of academic exploration and the ontological level of academic research, and ultimately forming the thinking ability to independently conduct academic research.

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