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Intercultural Group Supervision: From Emergency Pandemic Response to Establishing a Paradigm of Group Research Supervision
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Liyun Wendy Choo; Camilla Highfield; Siu Kit Yeung – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
This paper describes a study investigating the effectiveness of an online group supervision model developed to respond to the plight of postgraduate students forced to complete their research theses in China due to the COVID-19 pandemic border closures in 2020-2022. The supervisory group included academics with variable supervision experience who…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Groups, Research
Understanding Doctoral Students' Needs for Thesis Discussion Writing and Supervisory Curriculum Development: A Sociocultural Theory Perspective
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Lifen Shen; Lawrence Jun Zhang; Susan Carter – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
The global blossoming of doctoral education calls for a better understanding of doctoral candidates' needs concerning thesis writing. Although scholars proclaim the particular difficulty of writing a thesis discussion, empirical studies on doctoral students' needs for the discussion chapter are insufficient. To fill the gap, using individual…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Curriculum Development, Student Needs, Discussion
"The Voice of Choice": Transpacific Educational Exchanges in the Neoliberal Era
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Hilary Moss – History of Education Quarterly, 2024
This essay queries how ideas about school choice traversed the Pacific in the late twentieth century. Specifically, it reconstructs and deconstructs the visits of two African American proponents of parental school choice, Annette "Polly" Williams and Howard Fuller, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1990s. Drawing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Parent Role, Parent Participation
It Is Only an Intervention, but It Can Sow Very Fertile Seeds: Graduate Physical Education Teachers' Interpretations of Critical Pedagogy
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Gerdin, Göran; Philpot, Rod; Smith, Wayne – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
The role that school health and physical education (HPE) plays in the making of physically active and healthy citizens continues to be rearticulated within the field of HPE practice. In Australasia, for example, this is evident in HPE curricula changes that now span almost two decades with ongoing advocacy for greater recognition of socially…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate School Faculty, Physical Education Teachers, Physical Education
But the Learning Has Already Passed: Rethinking the Role of Time in E-Mediated Learning Settings
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Khoo, Elaine; Cowie, Bronwen – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2014
Time takes on a different character when online teachers take advantage of the possibilities for interactions occurring over different scales of time. Online teachers' pedagogical link-making can help students see links between ideas across individual postings so that meaning making becomes cumulative and progressive. This article reports on a…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Graduate Students, Graduate School Faculty, Educational Research
The Focus of Supervisor Written Feedback to Thesis/Dissertation Students
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Bitchener, John; Basturkmen, Helen; East, Martin – International Journal of English Studies, 2010
Written feedback on drafts of a thesis or dissertation is arguably the most important source of input on what is required or expected of thesis-writing students by the academic community. Despite its importance, relatively little is known about what type of information supervisors focus on when giving feedback. This article presents the findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Interpersonal Communication, Doctoral Dissertations