Golding, Jenefer;
Shaimemanya, Cornelia NS;
(2023)
Policies and ethical issues in doctoral supervision: the southern African context.
In: Luneta, K and Golding, Jennie and Kapenda, Hileni and Phiri Nalube, Patricia, (eds.)
Doctoral Supervision in Southern Africa From Theory to Practice.
(pp. 17-39).
Springer: Cham, Switzerland.
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Abstract
Doctoral supervision takes place against a background of contextual and cultural affordances and constraints—but in a global, and mobile, higher education system. Recent years have also seen widespread diversification of the student body and of doctorates, massification, and formalisation of doctoral study. In Southern Africa, as elsewhere, this landscape has been both driven by, and reflected in, national and local university policies which frame the choices available to supervisors, and which frequently bring with them unintended tensions in relation to professional and ethical conduct. In this chapter, we interrogate at a high level, and with outsider’s/insider’s lenses, some aspects of the doctoral education policy landscape in Southern Africa. We focus in particular on those areas of policy which appear to bring particular ethical challenges to the practice of doctoral supervision, and, where illuminating, draw on a comparative analysis of policy and practice in the contributing universities. Foci include the structures, pedagogy for, and assessment of, doctorates; the supply, status and development of doctoral supervisors; and preparation, funding and opportunities for doctoral students.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Policies and ethical issues in doctoral supervision: the southern African context |
| ISBN: | 3031468988 |
| ISBN-13: | 9783031468988 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-031-46899-5_2 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46899-5_2 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Doctoral education policy, Capacity development, Doctoral supervision, Southern Africa, Globalisation, Brain drain, Ethical issues, Institutional structures, Funding |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10184614 |
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