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Discourses of deficit in Higher Degree Research Supervisory pedagogies for international students

- Zeegers, Margaret, Barron, Deirdre

  • Authors: Zeegers, Margaret , Barron, Deirdre
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Pedagogies: An International Journal Vol. 3, no. 2 (2008), p. 69-84
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  • Description: Global student mobility has placed pressure on western universities to recruit students from non-western, non-English-speaking backgrounds. In this article, we argue that language requirements such as the International English Language Testing System bands are underpinned by discourses that privilege western modes of thought. We go on to argue that English language proficiency underpins discourses of deficit that construct non-western students as less able to undertake research programmes. In exploring pedagogical possibilities, we draw on a published story of an international higher degree research student, called Mei, at an Australian university. We question the idea that a research higher degree is more about linguistic skills than it is about research skills, and we argue that rigour, scholarship, and new knowledge constitute the assessable factors in what international higher degree research students produce.
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Pedagogical concerns in doctoral supervision : A challenge for pedagogy

- Zeegers, Margaret, Barron, Deirdre

  • Authors: Zeegers, Margaret , Barron, Deirdre
  • Date: 2012
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Quality Assurance in Education Vol. 20, no. 1 (2012), p. 20-30
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  • Description: Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to focus on pedagogy as a crucial element in postgraduate research undertakings, implying active involvement of both student and supervisor in process of teaching and learning. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on Australian higher degree research supervision practice to illustrate their argument, the authors take issue with reliance on traditional Oxbridge conventions as informing dominant practices of supervision of postgraduate research studies and suggest pedagogy as intentional and systematic intervention that acknowledges the problematic natures of relationships between teaching, learning, and knowledge production as integral to supervision and research studies. Findings: The authors examine issues of discursive practice and the problematic nature of power differentials in supervisor-supervisee relationships, and the taken-for-grantedness of discursive practice of such relationships. The authors do this from the perspective of the student involved in higher degree research programs, a departure from the bulk of the literature that has as its focus the perspective of the supervisor and/or the institution. Originality/value: The paper examines the perspective of the student involved in higher degree research programs, a departure from the bulk of the literature that has as its focus the perspective of the supervisor and/or the institution. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Possible futures for doctoral research training in design

- Barron, Deirdre, Zeegers, Margaret

  • Authors: Barron, Deirdre , Zeegers, Margaret
  • Date: 2012
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Vol. 66, no. June (2012), p.
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  • Description: In this paper, we argue that Design research is basic to countries' national productivity and competition agendas at the same time that vagaries of research training presents as one of the barriers faced by Design Higher Degree by Research students in engaging those agendas. We argue that, given industry requirements for research-trained recruits, students have the right to expect that research training will provide the foundations of a successful career on an academic or research pathway or a professional pathway, but that universities have yet to address problems in their provision of research training for Design doctoral students. We suggest that to facilitate this, rigorous research conducted on the provision of Doctoral programs in Design would serve to inform future activities in Design research in productive ways.

Communities of interest: Three unique studies in wider university and school partnerships in Australia

- Barron, Deirdre, Zeegers, Margaret

  • Authors: Barron, Deirdre , Zeegers, Margaret
  • Date: 2012
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Proceedings of World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Vol. 6, no. 6 (June 2012 2012), p. 1009-1013
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  • Description: In this paper we canvass three case studies of unique research partnerships between universities and schools in the wider community. In doing so, we consider those areas of indeterminate zones of professional practice explored by academics in their research activities within the wider community. We discuss three cases: an artist-in-residence program designed to engage primary school children with new understandings about local Indigenous Australian issues in their pedagogical and physical landscapes; an assessment of pedagogical concerns in relation to the use of physical space in classrooms; and the pedagogical underpinnings of a costumed museum school program. In doing so, we engage issues of research as playing an integral part in the development, implementation and maintenance of academic engagements with wider community issues.
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