Understanding Supervision and the Phd

, by Peelo, Moira

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ISBN: 9781441177544 | 144117754X
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Copyright: 1/20/2011

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Explores the experience of supervision And The PhD, drawing on a range of key viewpoints to further understanding of this complex educational experience.

Introduction	p. 1
Outline of the book	p. 4
A note on research	p. 5
Analysing and interpreting supervision	p. 11
Setting the Scene
Teaching, Learning and Taking Risks	p. 17
Supervision as teaching	p. 21
Developing academic skills and social practices: the example of writing	p. 23
Subject specialism and risk	p. 25
PhD experience and risk	p. 27
Implications for supervision	p. 30
Supervising Social and Academic Practices in a Political Context	p. 33
A crisis of expectations?	p. 36
Tacit knowledge: negotiating the PhD as an examination	p. 37
Paradigm clashes and academic positioning	p. 39
Supporting academic writing	p. 42
Finishing drafts	p. 44
Becoming an academic: ownership of knowledge within a hierarchy	p. 45
Implications for supervision	p. 47
Key Perspectives
Completing: Slaying the Dragon	p. 51
Overview of responses	p. 54
Was it a good or a bad experience?	p. 55
Supervision	p. 58
Change	p. 63
Implications for supervision	p. 64
Current Students: Making Progress and Experiencing Supervision	p. 67
Making progress	p. 70
What hampers progress?	p. 72
Expectations of supervision: communities and research cultures	p. 73
Experiencing supervision - overview	p. 76
Scenarios: good, bad and mixed	p. 81
Gender and discipline	p. 81
Implications for supervision	p. 84
Alternative Views	p. 86
Communication and expectations	p. 89
Supervisor training and development	p. 92
Change: the perceived impact of external drivers	p. 94
Models of supervision	p. 97
Implications for supervision	p. 100
Supervisors - Old and New
Supervision: A Shared View?	p. 105
Overview of responses: shared views	p. 108
Groups: discipline, gender and supervisor experience	p. 109
Supervisor-student relationship: concerns and enjoyment	p. 112
Implications for supervision	p. 119
Learning to be a Supervisor	p. 122
Developing expertise: being a new supervisor	p. 125
Drawing on past experience: being a doctoral student	p. 129
Self-doubt: learning from others	p. 133
Expectations of supervision	p. 135
Implications for supervision	p. 136
The Voice of Experience	p. 138
Flexi-structures	p. 140
Collaborative supervision	p. 142
Learning to accept criticism	p. 145
When it goes wrong	p. 148
Implications for supervision	p. 151
Development and Training
Supervisor Courses: Training and Development	p. 157
Looking back	p. 157
Supervisors' views of training and development	p. 162
Reconstruction	p. 168
Workshops and courses	p. 171
Implications for supervision	p. 173
References	p. 176
Index	p. 181
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Understanding Supervision and the Phd

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