Protocolos para la Investigación del Doctorado en Educación

Abstract

This book shows the route to carry out a doctoral thesis as part of the research training, and is based on the case of the Doctorate in Education program of the Santo Tomás University in Bogotá, Colombia. An overview is made from the admission, presentation and approval of the research proposal for the doctoral candidacy, the support of the thesis, the internship and graduation in this postgraduate course. In this way, the stages of doctoral training are presented and the selection and admission process, the doctoral seminars, the development of the research, the support of the doctoral thesis and the graduation are described. Subsequently, the protocol for presentation and approval of the research proposal as a requirement for doctoral candidacy is shown, where the generalities of the research proposal for candidacy and its corpus of work to be developed are addressed. Then, the general guidelines for the presentation and support of the doctoral thesis are shown along with its definition, its characteristics, its content, its formal aspects, and the requirements for its evaluation and support. Finally, the ethical considerations for the development of doctoral research are shared, and formats and rubrics of the internship process, the research proposal, the doctoral thesis, and support are disclosed. In this way, this book becomes a contribution to the knowledge of doctoral training, since it supports the planning and organization of research work step by step.