A Conversation Analytic Approach to Doctoral Supervision: Feedback, Advice, and Guidance
Binh Thanh Ta, "A Conversation Analytic Approach to Doctoral Supervision: Feedback, Advice, and Guidance "
English | ISBN: 1032209089 | 2023 | 194 pages | PDF | 8 MB
English | ISBN: 1032209089 | 2023 | 194 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book reports on an empirical study of oral feedback practices in doctoral supervision meetings, observing supervisors’ and students’ conduct to enable a new understanding of the social organisation of doctoral research supervision.
In a field that has predominantly drawn on surveys and interviews, this study presents a rare, direct insight into doctoral supervision meetings, showing us what actually happens and making a significant contribution to future practice. Based on 25 video-recorded supervision meetings at an Australian university, the book invites the reader into the micro-world of interactions between doctoral students and their supervisors. Drawing on conversation analysis as an analytical framework, the study uncovers how feedback is initiated and delivered, how supervisors manage when students disagree with their advice and guidance, how they acknowledge student autonomy and identity as people with knowledge and expertise in their own right, as well as how supervisors co-work within a team supervision environment.
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