Global Scholar
Implications for Postgraduate Studies and Supervision
Published on 15. July 2021
286 pages
978-1-991201-23-2 (ISBN)
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In our rapidly globalising world, "the global scholar" is a key concept for reimagining the roles of academics at the nexus of the global and the local. This book critically explores the implications of the concept for understanding postgraduate studies and supervision. It uses three conceptual lenses - "horizon", "currency" and "trajectory" - to organise the thirteen chapters, concluding with a reflection on the implications of Covid-19 for postgraduate studies and supervision. Authors bring their perspectives on the global scholar from a variety of contexts, including South Africa, Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Germany, Cyprus, Kenya and Israel. They explore issues around policy, research and practice, sharing a concern with the relation between the local and the global, and a passion for advancing postgraduate studies and supervision.
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Peter Rule | Eli Bitzer | Liezl Frick
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Implications for Postgraduate Studies and Supervision
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Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgement
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Introduction: The Global Scholar
- INTRODUCTION
- HORIZON
- CURRENCY
- TRAJECTORY
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Part One - Horizons
- Chapter 1: Opportunities and challenges of international research experiences during doctoral studies in a globalised doctoral education world
- Introduction
- Defining international research experience
- Background of international research experience
- International research activities
- Overall recommendations: Preare for challenges and share lessons learned
- Conclusion
- Afterword from Seattle, Washington, in May 2020
- References
- Chapter 2: Doctoral education as a field of global scholarship - An analysis of Anglophone published research
- Introduction
- Background to the study
- Methodology
- Results and discussion
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 3: The vitae researcher development framework in South African postgraduate education
- Introduction
- The broad South African postgraduate education context
- Decolonising research and researcher development
- The policy framework for South African postgraduate education
- Postgraduate researcher development
- The vitae researcher development framework
- Using the RDF: The university of Johannesburg experience
- Reflections on the applicability of the RDF for postgraduate researcher development in South Africa
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4: Is international benchmarking appropriate for improving the quality of thesis examination?
- Introduction
- The researcher
- What is benchmarking?
- Possible quality indicators in examination
- Discussion: What might all this mean?
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgement
- References
- Part Two - Currents and Currencies
- Chapter 5: The politics of postgraduate education - Supervising in a troubled world
- Introduction
- The relationship between skills, the economy and education
- Human caital theory assumes a meritocracy
- Economic rather than social and environmental development
- The nature of humanity in human capital theory
- Knowledge as skills
- What can be done? I'm just a postgraduate supervisor
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 6: Academic mobility in the digital academy - questions for supervision
- Introduction
- Academic mobility
- What do these two influences mean for supervision?
- Effects of physical mobility of academics
- New practices in supervision
- Conclusion: Do we need a new model of supervision?
- References
- Chater 7: The implications of doctoral mobility for doctoral programme design and supervision
- Introduction and overview
- Academic mobility in numbers
- Definitions and methodology
- Academic mobility in the literature
- Summary of survey findings
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 8: Quality doctoral education in Africa - A question of setting the right standards?
- Introduction
- Current challenges for doctoral education in Africa
- Building PHD capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa and the role of international agencies and partnership
- Doctoral standards, regulations and guidelines in Europe
- The development and implementation of doctoral standards and guidelines in East Africa
- The development and implementation of a doctoral qualification standard in South Africa
- Discussion and conclusion
- REFERENCES
- Part Three - Trajectories
- Chapter 9: The interdisciplinary PHD - Process, outcomes and challenges
- Introduction
- Literature revies
- National perspectives on the interdisciplinary PHD
- Future work on the interdisciplinary PHD
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 10: Finding academic jobs in stratified countries - The effects of social class of origin in the development of academic networds for Chilean PHDs
- Introduction
- Chilean income inequality reproduced in the higher education system
- Use of academic networks to secure academic jobs: Evidence from other counties
- Conceptual framework
- Mythodology
- Analytical techniques
- Findings
- Discussion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Appendix 1
- Chapter 11: Towards a theoretical framework for exploring emotion in doctoral education - Critically exploring familiar narratives in student experiences
- Introduction
- Unpacking a familiar narrative
- Constructing theoretical framework for researching emotions
- Pulling the framework together: Starting points for researching doctoral emotions
- References
- Chapter 12: Working together beyond the PHD
- Introduction
- Literature review
- Methodology and methods
- Findings
- Data analysis: The continuum of supervisors and graduated students working together - from the 'lightside' and the 'darkside'
- Onward working with the supervisors and graduate student
- Darkside - some negative interactions and stalled relationships
- Further discussion
- Conclusions
- References
- Part Four - Reflections and Directions
- Chapter 13: Reflections on Covid-19 and the Global Scholar
- Introduction
- Covid-19, currents and currencies
- Covid-19 and trajectory
- Covid-19 and horizon
- New directions
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
- Contributing authors
