The Routledge Doctoral Supervisor's Companion : Supporting Effective Research in Education and the Social Sciences

ISBN-13: 9780415484138 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 300 str.

Pat Thomson;Melanie Walker

Opis

This book accompanies the Routledge Doctoral Student's Companion. It is not yet another book on competing teaching paradigms, nor a guide to how to hand-hold students to do a piece of doctoral work from beginning to end, nor a view of the doctorate which comprises ‘tips and tricks’, nor approaches to ‘writing up’ a thesis, or set of researcher biographies. Rather The Routledge Doctoral Supervisor’s Companion places at its centre the interwoven questions of what it means to be a doctoral student in the social sciences, what is involved in becoming and being a researcher and clearly shows how the role of the supervisor is key to the student’s personal development. It further details what research capabilities are key to confidence, quality and success.

In each chapter, having provided a framing for the question under discussion, given some history of the debates, and offered a helpful lexicon through which to understand the topic, The Doctoral Supervisor's Companion provides information about helpful resources and methodological and method support. In this way, it acts as a road map to the international literatures and best practice. This, together with the diverse range of writers in the book, will ensure an international readership for the text.

This book will be a vital tool both for beginning and established supervisors and has the potential to be a key text for all education and cognate disciplines. It is not focused on methods and methodologies (other texts do that amply well) but addresses the sorts of questions that need to be taken up by developing researchers, debated and argued, as well as providing pragmatic and practical thinking about how to aid students’ research/scholarly careers and identities. Nor is this a simple question and answer text. The questions and issues raised are fundamental to the doctorate and ones which the academic audience finds itself discussing repeatedly. While there is no one solution to ideal supervision, this wide-ranging text offers proven solutions that will help supervisors develop their own personal style of effective supervision.

Ideal for all supervisors whether assisting the increasing number of part time doctoral researchers who have less access to supervision and campus based courses and resources or assisting traditional full-time students, it is also highly suitable for helping academics to support international students who must adapt to Western doctoral traditions: this text will help both supervisor and student to understand why things are as they are.

Spis treści

Part I  Introduction Why the doctoral companions? Melanie Walker and Pat Thomson  Notes on Contributors  Illustrations (Tables/Figures)  Using this book  1. The changing nature of the doctorate and doctoral students Pat Thomson and Melanie Walker  Part II: Supervision as pedagogy/ies  2. Doctoral education as ‘capability formation’ Melanie Walker  3. Perhaps I should be more proactive in changing my own supervisions': student agency in 'doing supervision Jackie Goode  4. From poster to PhD: the evolution of a literature review Kerryn Dixon and Hilary Janks  5. Understanding doctoral research for professional practitioners Terry Evans  6. Critical transcultural exchanges: educational development for supervisors Catherine Manathunga  7. Negotiating the layered relations of supervision Barbara M. Grant  8. Adapting signature pedagogies in doctoral education: The case of teaching how to work with the literature Chris M. Golde  Part III: Challenges in supervision pedagogy/ies  9. Supervising part-time doctoral students: issues and challenges Jacqueline H. Watts   10. Supervising part-time doctoral students Terry Evans  11. Fortunate travellers: learning from the multiliterate lives of doctoral students Sue Starfield  12. Internationalization of higher education: challenges for the doctoral supervisor Anna Robinson-Pant  13. International Students and Doctoral Studies in Transnational Spaces Fazal Rizvi  14. The doctorate in the life course Diana Leonard  15. Rhythms of place: Time and space in the doctoral experience Sue Middleton  16. Global social justice, critical policy, and doctoral pedagogical spaces Elaine Unterhalter  17. Coming to terms with research practice - Riding the emotional rollercoaster of doctoral research studies Angus Morrison-Saunders, Susan A. Moore, Michael Hughes and David Newsome  18. Doctoral education in global times - ‘Scholarly quality’ as practical ethics in research Terri Seddon  19. The truth is not out there: becoming ‘undetective’ in social and educational inquiry - Crime fiction and social inquiry: intertextual continuities Noel Gough  20. A personal reflection on doctoral supervision from a feminist perspective Miriam E. David  21. Writing in, writing out: Doctoral writing as peer work Claire Aitchison and Alison Lee  22. Creating discursive and relational communities through an international doctoral student exchange Julie McLeod and Marianne Bloch  23. The relationship between doctoral students’ approach to research and experiences of their research environment Keith Trigwell   24.  Educating the doctoral student: don’t forget the teaching Tony Harland