ABSTRACT

This interview-based study with thirty doctoral supervisors in the UK focused on the diverse goals and intentions behind their supervisory activities, from which we derived a six-dimensional model of concepts of supervision. We explored how strongly each of these concepts featured in supervisors’ intentions and whether this varied by discipline. Most of the intentions underlying the activities supervisors employed pertained to the concepts ‘Enculturation’ and ‘Functional’; far fewer pertained to the concepts ‘Emancipation’, ‘Critical Thinking’, ‘Care’ and ‘Preparation for Work and Life’. When supervisors were asked to identify the intentions behind their supervision practice more generally, not in direct reference to their activities, the functional perspective was less prominent. Some differences were observed between as well as within disciplines. The study confirms and extends previous research on concepts of graduate supervision and illustrates how supervisors’ personal views, their ‘conceptions’, of supervision can be described in relation to the six concepts.

摘要

这项基于访谈的研究对英国的三十位博士生导师进行了研究，重点关注他们的督导活动背后的不同目标和意图，从中我们得出了督导概念的六维模型。我们探讨了这些概念在监管者意图中的强烈程度，以及这是否因学科而异。所雇用的活动主管的大部分意图都与“文化适应”和“功能性”概念有关；与“解放”、“批判性思维”、“关怀”和“为工作和生活做好准备”等概念相关的内容要少得多。当监管者被要求更广泛地确定其监管实践背后的意图而不是直接参考其活动时，职能视角就不那么突出了。在学科之间和学科内部都观察到了一些差异。该研究证实并扩展了先前关于研究生监督概念的研究，并说明了如何根据这六个概念来描述导师的个人观点，即他们的监督“概念”。