Academic Exploration and Advanced Thinking： A Case study of Ethnography in the Academic Growth of Sports Doctoral Students

Abstract

Background: 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: Exploring the academic thinking training of sports doctoral students from the thematic perspective of anthropology case ethnography can reveal the essence of doctoral students' academic exploration and the impact of academic exploration on thinking advancement. 

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 the cultivation of paper writing skills is emphasized, and academic exploration is equated with paper writing; In the middle and later stages of training, there is a gradual transition from academic writing to metacognition of academic thinking, focusing on the essence of academic research, transcending the formal requirements of academic writing, and re nurturing professional issues; Throughout the entire process of academic cultivation, the academic exploration and academic thinking advancement of sports doctoral students is not an absolute increase, but gradually returns to the starting point of academic exploration and the ontological level of academic research, and ultimately forms the thinking ability to independently conduct academic research, and ultimately transcends thinking training to achieve spiritual perfection.