Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision

Name: Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Reimagining time, place and knowledge

By: Catherine Manathunga

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Hardcover | 25 June 2014 | Edition Number 1

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210 Pages

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24.2 x 15.7 x 1.7

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The impact of globalisation and aggressive marketing by universities in many countries has increased the flow of international or culturally diverse students enrolling in postgraduate research higher degree programs outside their own countries. So too, as access to postgraduate education widens, more local culturally diverse and Indigenous students enrol in research higher degree studies. As a result, significantly more academics now engage in intercultural supervision or supervising students who are culturally different to themselves.

This book argues that academics require more nuanced, critical and theoretically-based understandings of supervision and culture in order to engage more effectively in empowering intercultural supervision. It shows how post-colonial theory can offer fresh, critical insights into intercultural supervision by encouraging students and supervisors to bring a sense of history into their supervisory interactions. The author shows that it is only by using the conceptual tools offered by post-colonial theories about colonial histories and discourses, difference and identity that the more complex but potentially rich aspects of intercultural supervision can be better understood and grappled with in intercultural supervision.

This is important because the personal and cultural histories of both supervisors and students can shape their interactions in significant and, at times, unexpected ways. Therefore, post-colonial theory encourages us to bring a sense of time and specific place to our understandings of culture and how they impact on intercultural supervision.

using post-colonial theory can help us to extend our understandings of the complexities and rewards of intercultural supervision

It provides supervisors and researchers with these complex understandings of culture and supervision through the use of post-colonial theory.

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'As the author has envisaged, to wrestle effectively with serious global problems, we would do well to draw on the vast array of knowledge systems that all of our cultures have produced. It puts the reader in mind of Ghandi's view on western civilisation; he said 'It would be a good idea'. Marathunga's book would suggest that it is time for educators and researchers to rethink what intercultural supervision can do make it happen.'- Dr Helen Song- Turner, Federation University, Australian Universities' Review, February 2015

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