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Experiencing higher degree research supervision as teaching
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Experiencing higher degree research supervision as teaching

Christine Bruce and Ian D Stoodley
Studies in Higher Education, Vol.38(2), pp.226-241
2013
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Abstract

experience higher degree research phenomenography supervision Teaching/Learning
This article describes higher degree research supervisors' experiences of supervision as teaching. While research education is considered central to the higher degree research experience, comparatively little is known to date of the teaching lenses adopted by supervisors as they go about their supervision. We worked with 35 supervisors engaged in discipline-specific and interdisciplinary research across architectural design, science, engineering, computer science, information systems and librarianship. Several of these supervisors conducted projects which interfaced with the social sciences and humanities. Nine categories describing supervisors' experiences were constructed through the adoption of a phenomenographic approach. These offer a picture of supervisors' collective awareness of supervision as teaching. Supervision as teaching was experienced as: Promoting the supervisor's development, Imparting academic expertise, Upholding academic standards, Promoting learning to research, Drawing upon student expertise, Enabling student development, Venturing into unexplored territory, Forming productive communities, and Contributing to society. © 2013 Copyright Society for Research into Higher Education.

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