{"title":"Understanding complexity in doctoral lifeworlds and impacts of advising ancestries","authors":"Rebecca Rouse","doi":"10.47989/kpdc308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc308","url":null,"abstract":"This paper shares findings from an interview study designed to open up critical conversations on complexity in advising. Using a narrative inquiry approach to centre storytelling and personal experience as valuable knowledge, I interview advisors (both academic and unofficial) who were central to my own doctoral research journey, as well as former doctoral students of mine. The interview results are put in relation with my own critical reflection on my advising practices as an ethos, as opposed to a set of tasks or functions, and put into context with larger social concepts such as positionality. This new perspective is suggested as a supplement to complexify and expand earlier research on advising styles. Advising is characterised as deeply entangled with mentoring as well as teaching at large, and the paper concludes with identification of larger ethea, reflecting how advising practices are co-constituted in relation with a range of other factors, such as positionality, institutional and disciplinary context, the larger student lifeworld, and perspectives on teaching and learning.","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114822063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Making\" an academic supervisor","authors":"Petra Angervall","doi":"10.47989/kpdc534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc534","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is based on my reflections on a series of lectures given by me over a period of three years in a course called Supervising doctoral students. The lectures are, to a large extent, based on my own research on higher education policy, academic career, and gender, and highlight various topics concerning gender, power, and supervision. Through Hacking’s (2007) ideas on how research not only contributes to, describes, and analyses different aspects of the world, but also plays a role in how we make up institutions and people, I elaborate on what studies on gender, academic work, and supervision tell us and how we use the stories we tell as researchers. Researchers like me within the field of higher education research know a lot about gender divisions in academic career, but we seldom discuss how we are participating in normalising specific patterns. Can we present these results without also emphasising “gender difference” or gender divisions? The paper discusses how I handle this risk, but also raises issues about what it means to lecture on gender in higher education and includes reflections about my own position and competence as a lecturer.","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114309417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doctoral supervision as and for praxis","authors":"Kathleen Mahon","doi":"10.47989/kpdc318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc318","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the author revisits empirical material generated in her PhD research in light of (a) her recent experiences and conversations as course coordinator of the supervision course at the centre of the Special Issue, and (b) current supervision practice. Part of her PhD research included examination of her own supervisors’ pedagogical praxis while they were supervising her doctorate. This examination occurred, rather uniquely, in dialogue with her supervisors in supervision meetings and interviews, and also through analysis of reflective notes made about her experiences of being supervised during the PhD. At the end of the paper, the author relates the findings of her retrospective analysis to her own being, becoming, and praxis as a supervisor and academic developer involved with the professional learning of supervisors. The discussion builds on current doctoral education and higher education praxis literature by highlighting, among other things, the role of supervision experiences—as both supervisor and supervisee—in supervisor becoming, and how, supervision practice as praxis can be both enacted and nurtured within a supervision team. ","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125726877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research supervision as praxis: A need to speak back in dangerous ways?","authors":"Nick Hopwood, L. Frick","doi":"10.47989/kpdc411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc411","url":null,"abstract":"Viewing research supervision as praxis offers alternative perspectives on this crucial aspect of academic work. In this paper, we consider the contributions in this Special Issue as counterpoints to dominant discourses on research supervision by drawing on the idea of praxis as morally committed and history-making action. This brings insights from Swedish research into dialogue with literature from across the world, particularly the Global South. We thematize these contributions by highlighting issues of complexity; considering how history, future and positionality shape supervision praxis; challenging narrow production-oriented discourses in favour of creativity as a foundation for supervision as praxis; and reflecting on how a shift from precarity to nuance may enable us to view supervision as praxis as enablement towards a better future. Our consideration of research supervision as praxis necessitates a stance that does not conform to the status quo, thus provoking further debate and action to think, and supervise, in non-routine, future-changing ways. As supervisors, we do not need to be resigned to futures where neoliberal regimes of surveillance, measurement and accountability shape our practices as strongly as they do today. We argue that there is a need to speak back to supervision as praxis in dangerous ways.","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128602336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stress in doctoral supervision: A perspective on supervisors","authors":"A. Padyab, Martin Lundgren","doi":"10.47989/kpdc307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc307","url":null,"abstract":"The research on stress in doctoral education has largely focused on doctoral researchers’ well-being. However, also doctoral supervisors experience stress. This study aims to uncover the dimensions of stressors related to doctoral supervisors and different sources of stress experienced by them. Interviews with doctoral supervisors were conducted to gather evidence of doctoral supervisor stress. We identified eight stressors, of which three were shared between the supervisor and the doctoral researcher: time pressure, balancing work and personal time, and doctoral researcher’s project. Other sources of stress for doctoral supervisors were related to the defence day, organisational and administrative factors, engagement with the student’s personal issues, managing “out-of-scope activities”, and the supervisor’s relationship with their co-supervisor. The insights gained from this study may assist supervisors in finding coping strategies to minimise their stress. Moreover, it can be a step towards understanding how the impact on supervisor’s stress might be theorised.","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116236187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Becoming a professional supervisor: Doctoral supervisors’ development in a mandatory, large-scale development programme","authors":"Trine Fossland","doi":"10.47989/kpdc429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc429","url":null,"abstract":"High-quality supervision is crucial for doctoral researchers’ progression, attrition rates, well-being, and experience of their doctoral journeys. New requirements in higher education have actualised the professional development of doctoral supervisors’ praxis, both as an institutional responsibility and academic field. However, there is a lack of literature exploring doctoral supervisors’ perspectives on professional development. This paper explores what doctoral supervisors find essential for their professional development when attending a mandatory programme for doctoral supervisors. Drawing on a longitudinal case study on the professional development of supervisors, five core aspects essential for the professional development of doctoral supervisors’ praxis are identified: institutional responsibility and support; transformational learning; building a broader repertoire of approaches to supervision; learning to balance complexity, and interaction and identity formation within supervisors’ communities. Based on these findings, a set of institutional recommendations for the professional development of doctoral is suggested.","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":"15 15","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120863420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pedagogical competence development programs: tensions and challenges to meaningful participation","authors":"Espen Hektoen, Patric Wallin","doi":"10.47989/kpdc407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc407","url":null,"abstract":"Pedagogical competence development programs are gaining traction in the world of higher education teaching. In 2016, the Norwegian government issued a white paper calling for a “culture for quality” in higher education teaching. In line with earlier developments in other Scandinavian countries, the white paper proposes mandatory pedagogical competence development programs for university teachers as a new responsibility for the Norwegian universities – with new challenges for the institutions. In this article we, therefore, explore how participants in one of the new mandatory competence development programs experience tensions that challenge meaningful participation. Based on a qualitative analysis of 9 semi-structured interviews with participants, we identify three tensions: 1) between reflection and application, 2) between research and teaching, and 3) between demands and workloads. The vision of this program is a critically reflective approach to teaching. In the analysis we found that these tensions potentially halt this process. To discuss how this can challenge pedagogical competence development in higher education more generally, we employ the theoretical perspective of critical reflection, integrated with dialogue, praxis, and discourses on teaching.","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133460341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Facing the world. Pedagogical praxis through a postpandemic prism","authors":"S. Kemmis","doi":"10.47989/kpdc334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc334","url":null,"abstract":"Universities are not ‘ivory towers’; they have always been engaged with the world around them. Their agile responses to the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrate their robust capacities for self-transformation. As that crisis eases, universities have fresh opportunities to consider how their curricula, pedagogies, and assessments might further be transformed to respond to the range of other crises now confronting the world. In these ways, universities demonstrate that they are crucial contributors to the transformation of students, the disciplines, the professions, and the world.","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125920149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pitfalls and possibilities with international partnerships. An interview with Gun-Britt Wärvik, the Swedish coordinator of an international partnership program.","authors":"G. Abraham, Petra Angervall","doi":"10.47989/kpdc444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc444","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is based on an interview with one of the principal leaders of an international partnership program between Ethiopia and Sweden, 2018-2022. The purpose of this interview is to deepen the understanding of these kinds of partnership, and to learn more about the possibilities and pitfalls of working in a joint program between national and cultural contexts. The interview was conducted with professor Gun-Britt Wärvik, the Swedish coordinator of the doctoral program between Addis Abeba University (AAU) and University of Gothenburg (GU). The interview results suggest that doctoral supervisory challenges were present as students often used concepts produced in cultural contexts that were foreign to their assigned supervisors. Additionally, the administrative burden was particularly challenging for the Ethiopian counterpart that coordinated the program. Overall, the program created many positive work opportunities for students, provided possibilities for staff of both universities to exercise supervision and examination of doctoral students and enriched international experiences for all involved.","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134519549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hanna Laalo, H. Koskinen, Pekka Stenholm, Päivi Siivonen
{"title":"Shaping and negotiating entrepreneurial selves in academic entrepreneurship education","authors":"Hanna Laalo, H. Koskinen, Pekka Stenholm, Päivi Siivonen","doi":"10.47989/kpdc376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc376","url":null,"abstract":"Entrepreneurship education appears to be a way to extend market orientation in academic education into pedagogical arrangements and students’ self-understanding. This we find in a case study of a startup entrepreneurship course designed and promoted by the international Junior Achievement -network and organised co-operatively by four Finnish higher education institutions. We examine how the course practices do not only develop students’ business skills but also aim to shape their entrepreneurial mind-sets and behaviour, simultaneously promoting practical and vocational approach to academic education. We are interested in how students internalise these practices and, specifically, how they challenge and resist the expectations targeted to them. Our analysis of the course materials and students’ reflections represents entrepreneurship education as a governing technology, which draws on market logic in attempting to make students employable, autonomous and proactive entrepreneurial subjects. Students seem to have internalised the favoured subjectivity, but they also subtly break the expectations when they are given a chance. Applying market logic in the pedagogical practices of academic education tends to dismiss and ignore the value of abstract theoretical cultivation and redefines the roles of a teacher and a student.","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":"251 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132085730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}