Talk:Docent

message: Thought I'd mention that in spite of the "in the world" near the start of the article, the term "docent" is almost unknown in Britain. Google test: Docent guide gets 757,000 hits , whereas the same search term confined to site:uk results gets only 315. . As further evidence, see this House of Commons report in which an American's use of "docent" has to be explained by the addition of "[guide]". 86.132.141.115 01:30, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Older discussion 

message: Could someone add the IPA for the word? As a British English speaker, the word is so unknown to me that I don't know how to say it. APW (talk) 07:11, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Like "dough" and "cint"98.221.133.96 (talk) 17:35, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

text: How come it doesn't go back and sign your post for you?  Whenever I fail to sign my post, Wikipedia inserts one of those messages.  Anyway, I shouldn't have said "cint," I should have said "sint."  Cint/Sint don't meant anything, just a means of trying to help you pronounce the word docent.  'Dough' as in bread dough, and 'sint,' as in "sin" with a "T" sound at the end.  Dough-sint is how Docent is usually pronounced.  Or perhaps Dough-sent.  Long "O" sound, the c makes an "S" sound.  Does that help? I'm not going to sign this post, let's see what happens.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.221.133.96 (talk) 09:39, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

text: You didn't answer my question.  Why didn't it sign your unsigned post for you?  Neither syllable is heavily stressed, but I suppose it would be on the 'dough.'  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.221.133.96 (talk) 16:58, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  How do you pronounce it? 

message: What, if any other than "thank you" is the proper compensation for a docent who has lead you on a museum tour?Jjadgate (talk) 16:30, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Docent--Compensation 

message: This section needs to be reworked. It need to clarify whether it is an appointment or a title, or both. It also should use the original word for each country, as done in all other section.
* FWIW, the statement in the article is accurate w.r.t. docent being an academic title in Russia, see e.g.  or  oxana (talk)
** This is completly wrong statement. We have an appointment and a title. For example, my wife works in Voronezh State University and has docent appointment. But she has not docent title because she does not feet corresponding standard which says:
Academic rank of docent may be awarded to doctors and candidates of sciences, replacing of an employment contract as a docent, professor, head of department, dean, head of the branch or institution, Provost, Rector of the institution of higher education or training institutions, as well as undergoing military service under contract, having a doctorate or PhD, replacing docent, professor, department head, chief of department, head of the branch or institution, the deputy head or chief of the university, the deputy head or head of the institution training or substitute similar positions in higher educational or training institutions in accordance with the list approved by the head of the federal executive body, in which federal law provides for military service if they have published educational-methodical and scientific papers, lectured and led training in a professional manner, as well as at the time of attestation of documents:
:a) successfully working (military service under contract) in these positions during the year;
:b) have experience of scientific and pedagogical work at least five years, including at least three years of teaching work in universities or institutions of excellence;
:c) is an author (coauthors) textbook (manual) or at least two methodological papers published over the past three years;
:d) are the authors (co-) book (chapters in the book), or at least two scientific papers published over the past three years.
Actually, my wife have not worked on on docent appointment sufficient amount of time. Next year academic Council of the our University may submit her to the docent title and than Ministry of Education of Russia may give this title. But she may work as docent without tile of docent but this can imply refusal to renew the contract by the university if would be other candidates on docent appointment with docent title--Вантус (talk) 22:55, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Central and Eastern European

message: hoodfdocent, hoogleraar and gewoon hoogleraar. can we have these in french as well?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.111.155.204 (talk) 13:52, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: In French?

message: The article on The Da Vinci Code mentions a docent at the Rosslyn Chapel (docent is not used in the corresponding article on the film) indicating that docent might also be some type of clerical position.150.227.15.253 (talk) 17:25, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Could it be simply a museum docent? --vuo (talk) 09:14, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clerical docents? 

message: In America we use the term for people who work at museums.  Should I find a source and add that? Cameron Nedland (talk) 16:09, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Docents at many museums are unpaid volunteers, but some house museums have paid docents with more duties than the unpaid ones.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 23:50, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  United States of America 

message: If someone has the title of docent, isn’t the person a docent? Why this awkward phrase “Title of Docent”? Kaihsu (talk) 08:09, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title of Docent?