Investigating cultures of PhD supervision: a holliday’ian small culture approach

The complexity and multidimensional characters of PhD supervision have been well researched from a variety of perspectives in English medium literature ranging from different supervisory roles to mismatch expectation between students and supervisors. As supervision involves personal relationships be...

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Main Authors:	Sahar, Rafidah, Abdullah, Nur Nabilah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2018
Subjects:	LB1025 Teaching (principles and practices) LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
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spelling	iium-659512019-04-03T01:38:50Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/65951/ Investigating cultures of PhD supervision: a holliday’ian small culture approach Sahar, Rafidah Abdullah, Nur Nabilah LB1025 Teaching (principles and practices) LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education The complexity and multidimensional characters of PhD supervision have been well researched from a variety of perspectives in English medium literature ranging from different supervisory roles to mismatch expectation between students and supervisors. As supervision involves personal relationships between supervisors and their students, which develop over a significant period of time (three years and more), increased cultural diversity within the student groups will add to the complexities of establishing supervisory cultures, more generally. Hence, the relevance of supervision and the development of supervisory cultures would be more prominent in a competitive and multicultural context such as in Malaysian higher institution. In this paper, we draw on Adrian Holliday’s ‘small cultures’ notion (1999) to show how PhD supervision cultures can be best understood as dynamic, emergent, meaning-making processes through which, students and supervisors make sense of, and operate meaningfully within particular contexts and shared purposes. In this study, we undertook a qualitative-narrative enquiry based approach to analyse experiences of supervision of six doctoral graduates in a Malaysian university. Data were collected through narrative interviews and subject to holistic-content narrative analysis. Findings suggest that the ‘small cultures’ notion offers a way of understanding cultural differences as not solely bounded by large culture such as nationality or ethnicity but through an analysis of cohesive social norms, values and expectations that take place during supervision. The findings have broad implications for developing a culturally more sensitive approach to PhD supervision in multicultural contexts 2018-08-14 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/65951/11/Rafidah%20MICOLLAC%202018.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/65951/12/69591_Investigating%20Cultures%20of%20PhD%20Supervision.pdf Sahar, Rafidah and Abdullah, Nur Nabilah (2018) Investigating cultures of PhD supervision: a holliday’ian small culture approach. In: 10th Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literature & Culture (MICOLLAC) 2018, 14th-16th Aug. 2018, Melaka. (Unpublished) https://micollac18.wixsite.com/conference
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spellingShingle	LB1025 Teaching (principles and practices) LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education Sahar, Rafidah Abdullah, Nur Nabilah Investigating cultures of PhD supervision: a holliday’ian small culture approach
description	The complexity and multidimensional characters of PhD supervision have been well researched from a variety of perspectives in English medium literature ranging from different supervisory roles to mismatch expectation between students and supervisors. As supervision involves personal relationships between supervisors and their students, which develop over a significant period of time (three years and more), increased cultural diversity within the student groups will add to the complexities of establishing supervisory cultures, more generally. Hence, the relevance of supervision and the development of supervisory cultures would be more prominent in a competitive and multicultural context such as in Malaysian higher institution. In this paper, we draw on Adrian Holliday’s ‘small cultures’ notion (1999) to show how PhD supervision cultures can be best understood as dynamic, emergent, meaning-making processes through which, students and supervisors make sense of, and operate meaningfully within particular contexts and shared purposes. In this study, we undertook a qualitative-narrative enquiry based approach to analyse experiences of supervision of six doctoral graduates in a Malaysian university. Data were collected through narrative interviews and subject to holistic-content narrative analysis. Findings suggest that the ‘small cultures’ notion offers a way of understanding cultural differences as not solely bounded by large culture such as nationality or ethnicity but through an analysis of cohesive social norms, values and expectations that take place during supervision. The findings have broad implications for developing a culturally more sensitive approach to PhD supervision in multicultural contexts
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Sahar, Rafidah Abdullah, Nur Nabilah
author_facet	Sahar, Rafidah Abdullah, Nur Nabilah
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title	Investigating cultures of PhD supervision: a holliday’ian small culture approach
title_short	Investigating cultures of PhD supervision: a holliday’ian small culture approach
title_full	Investigating cultures of PhD supervision: a holliday’ian small culture approach
title_fullStr	Investigating cultures of PhD supervision: a holliday’ian small culture approach
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publishDate	2018
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