1st Edition

A Conversation Analytic Approach to Doctoral Supervision Feedback, Advice, and Guidance

By Binh Thanh Ta Copyright 2023
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

This book reports on an empirical study of oral feedback practices in doctoral supervision meetings, observing supervisors’ and students’ conduct to enable a new understanding of the social organisation of doctoral research supervision. In a field that has predominantly drawn on surveys and interviews, this study presents a rare, direct insight into doctoral supervision meetings, showing us... Read more

1.Introduction 2. Feedback, advice, and guidance in doctoral supervision and in other educational contexts 3.Conversation analysis 4. Initiating feedback and advice activities and the practice of problematising student responses for advice purposes 5. Securing student display of understanding and acceptance of feedback and advice through storytelling 6. Managing resistance, rejection, and securing acceptance by invoking student epistemic identity 7. Managing disagreement by attending to student autonomy and invoking student deontic identity 8. Anticipatory completion of feedback and advice in team supervision 9. Inviting collaboration in team supervision 10. Towards effecting feedback and advice practices in doctoral supervision

Biography

Binh Thanh Ta is a lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Science, Monash University, where she teaches communication courses. She has expertise in conversation analysis, video-ethnography, and video-stimulated interviews. Her publications have focused on interaction between students and educators in the contexts of doctoral education and clinical placement.