Pedagogies of supervisorcandidate relations: their challenges in the professional doctorate

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Pedagogies of supervisor-candidate relations
their challenges in the professional doctorate

• Marie Brennan
• University of South Australia

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• Changing world of work

University
Profession
work place
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The prof doc

• Complementary expertises diverse expertises
• Academic as workplace ltgt other education
  workplaces
• New spaces? Made together, defined by both and
  not either site
• The imperative for explicit teaching from both
  student and supervisor
• The need for new terminology professional-resear
  cher university-researcher?/???

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Coming to the proposal trad ped

• 4 courses
• Critical reflective writing
• Reading educational policy
• Research methodology
• Developing a research proposal
• Panel for research proposal

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The pedagogical challenge of the proposal

• The challenge of imagining doing something new
• The proposal as liminal space between courses and
  thesis work, between work and uni, between
  roles..
• Co-invention or flying solo? M

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Uni regs for any proposal

• 1. Statement of the Research Topic and Rationale
  for the Research
• 2. Research methodology
• Trial table of contents
• Brief bibliography
• http//www.unisa.edu.au/policies/policies/resrch/r
  es10-regs.aspAppendix1

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The EdD Portfolio what is being imagined?

• Intro
• 3 projects
• 2 x 10,000 words
• 1 x 35,000 words
• Meta-analysis 20-25,000 words
• http//www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/programs/program.
  asp?ProgramMPEUYear2010

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Imagining research

• Imagining intellectual work in academic and
  workplaces in current conditions
• Beyond rhetorics of knowledge economy and
  exchange value of knowledge
• Joint movement into new spaces of knowledge
  production, knowledge norming and contextual
  relations.
• Original contribution to which knowledges?

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Imagineering the doctorate pedagogies of
explicit co-production

• Problematic?
• Appropriate and ethical methodologies
• Methods for changing circumstances
• Significance arguments?
• Making it do-able
• Shifting the university understandings as well
• Interpreting the criteria of successful
  performance