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Wisker, Gina; Robinson, Gillian – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2014
Increase in numbers of postgraduate students worldwide represent an opportunity and necessity for nurturing and recognising the diversity of culturally inflected research topics, methodologies and expression. However, there are tensions in the definitions, encouragement and recognition of diversity in theses, and in balances of power in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Cultural Awareness, Doctoral Dissertations
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Kiley, Margaret; Wisker, Gina – Higher Education Research and Development, 2009
Most work on threshold concepts has hitherto related to discipline-specific undergraduate education, however, the idea of generic doctoral-level threshold concepts appeared to us to provide a strong and useful framework to support research learning and teaching at the graduate level. The early work regarding research-level threshold concepts is…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Social Sciences, Identification, Foreign Countries