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Download full textMakoni, Patricia Lindelwa – International Journal of Higher Education, 2022
This paper presents an autoethnographic, narrative analysis through self-reflection of my own personal transition from doctoral student to doctoral supervisor. An evaluation of the importance of the PhD in South Africa, the role of doctoral supervisors, and characteristics of good supervisors was undertaken; against which my personal experience…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Novices, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Dissertations
Direct linkWaghid, Y. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
In this essay I offer an imaginary of postgraduate student supervision focusing on sceptical encounters with the other. Drawing on the seminal thoughts of Harvard philosopher Stanley Cavell (1997), particularly on his ideas on "living with scepticism", I argue that postgraduate student supervision ought to be an encounter framed by…
Descriptors: Supervision, Students, Supervisors, Graduate Study
