1st Edition
Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision Reimagining time, place and knowledge
By Catherine Manathunga
Copyright 2014
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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The impact of globalisation and aggressive marketing by universities has increased the flow of international or culturally diverse students enrolling in postgraduate research degree programs outside their own countries. As access to postgraduate education widens, more local culturally diverse and Indigenous students are also enrolling in higher degree studies. As a result, significantly more... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Postcolonial Theory and Supervision 3. Time and Place in Intercultural Supervision 4. Knowledge in Intercultural Supervision 5.Two Studies of Intercultural supervision in Australia: Context and Methodology 6. Assimilation 7. Transculturation 8. Unhomeliness 9. Disciplines: Do They Make a Difference? 10. Conclusion
Biography
Catherine Manathunga is an Associate Professor in the College of Education at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.
'As the author has envisaged, to wrestle effectively with serious global problems, we would do well to draw on the vast array of knowledge systems that all of our cultures have produced. It puts the reader in mind of Ghandi’s view on western civilisation; he said ‘It would be a good idea’. Marathunga’s book would suggest that it is time for educators and researchers to rethink what intercultural supervision can do make it happen.'- Dr Helen Song- Turner, Federation University, Australian Universities' Review, February 2015
