Border Crossings and Other Journeys: Re-envisioning the Doctoral Preparation of Education Researchers1

Given the finite amount of time in graduate school, and students' needs to (a) become expert enough in a given domain/ method to say something new and different, and (b) be able to make a thoughtful match between research problem and perspective/ methodology, how should we organize research preparation in doctoral study, and to what end? Is it even realistic to consider preparing researchers to use multiple methodologies and to work from different perspectives?