1st Edition

Reimagining Graduate Supervision in Developing Contexts A Focus on Regional Universities

By Danielle Watson, Erik Blair Copyright 2018
100 Pages
by Routledge

100 Pages
by Routledge

100 Pages
by Routledge

Exploring graduate supervision from a constructivist standpoint, this book offers an original look at the graduate supervisory practices and pedagogies at The University of the West Indies and The University of the South Pacific. Highlighting the ad hoc nature of graduate research supervision and the problems associated with their implementation, this volume examines the impact that unformalized... Read more

Introduction



Chapter 1 – The People factor: Transitioning from the Imagined to Reality



Chapter 2 – Research timelines: Schedules versus Constraints



Chapter 3 – Defining roles: Negotiable and Non-negotiable Terrain



Chapter 4 – Relinquishing Sole proprietary: Acknowledging the Need for the Contextual Repositioning of Supervisors



Chapter 5 – Navigating Blurred Territory: Transitioning into an Academic



Conclusion

Biography

Danielle Watson is Lecturer of Social Sciences at The University of the South Pacific, Fiji.



Erik Blair is Academic Developer at London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.