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Heroes, imposters and deviants in a
strange land: A socio-critical model for
understanding postgraduate supervision
By Paul Prinsloo (University of South Africa)
@14prinsp
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Pictures tap into a different vocabulary and offer a different
lens on a phenomenon as experienced by the narrator
(Shinebourne & Smith, 2010).
Pictures, like metaphors, are not neutral but chosen, they
are ideologically laden, immersed in fluid meanings, flowing
from and perpetuating a particular social imaginary.
Pictures also disturb, disrupt, challenge and, hopefully, slow
down the discourses on graduate supervision, allow us to
ask new questions, and, enable us “to comprehend partially
what cannot be comprehended totally”
(Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, p. 193).
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Higher education/graduate
supervision as field
An elephant in the
learning analytics
room –
the obligation to act
By Paul Prinsloo (University of South Africa) &
Sharon Slade (Open University, UK)
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/lollyman/4941417146
Image credit: Canadian Gunners in the Mud, Passchendaele by Lieutenant Alfred Bastien, 1917, oil on canvas. Retrieved from,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_art
Higher education/graduate supervision as a battlefield of
contesting claims– whether disciplinary, institutional,
student and/or claims arising from our macro context.
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Let us explore postgraduate supervision
as a phenomenon of ‘misfits’ and
of not ‘fitting in’
What follows is a reflection on how I describe
the field I am playing on as supervisor…
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An elephant in the
learning analytics
room –
the obligation to act
By Paul Prinsloo (University of South Africa) &
Sharon Slade (Open University, UK)
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/lollyman/4941417146
Shall I speak, or how shall I speak of …
• Being a supervisor where everything is measured, counted and where
numbers on spreadsheets are more important than the lives they
represent
• The (oc)cult of auditing, accountability, innovation and excellence --
where everyone signs oaths of transparency and ethics in often empty
rituals of fake fraternisation
• Increasing and contesting workloads
• Students who are increasingly underprepared for scholarly
engagement on graduate level
• Supervisors who are underprepared to ask new questions and let go of
answers and processes that may have been appropriate and effective
in the past
• Supervision is outsourced to the highest (or is it any available?) bidder
• Being a supervisor where offline is no longer an option and where
even when you are offline, you are “onlife” (The Onlife Manifesto, Floridi, 2015)
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In this strange land
there are
superheroes
(Pitt & Mewburn, 2016)
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Deviants…
(Attwood, 2010)
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In this strange land
there are also,
…imposters
(McMillan, 2016)
Those supervisors and students that
never quite fit in, according to others, or
feel that they fit in – forever nomad
(Maritz & Prinsloo, 2015)
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A strange land where novice researchers ‘Fake
it till you [they] make it’ (Ivana, 2016)
Postgraduate supervision: a question of ‘fit’
• ‘Fit’ between the student and his/her chosen focus, methodology,
discipline, institution, research expertise of the supervisor
• ‘Fit’ between the student and his or her supervisor - interpersonal
• ‘Fit’ between the supervisor and the amount and foci of students
allocated to him or her
• ‘Fit’ between the student aspirations and time-management with
the workload, aspirations and time-management of supervisors
• ‘Fit’ of students and supervisors within the broader disciplinary
networks of inclusion and exclusion
• ‘Fit’ between students and supervisors in a particular political,
social, economic, technological, legal and environmental context
• ‘Fit’ between the supervisor and institutional policy frameworks,
processes, networks of inclusion and exclusion, tacit knowledge and
contacts (Adapted from Subotzky and Prinsloo, 2011; Prinsloo, 2017)
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Do I/they ‘fit’? How do I/they ‘fit’?
According to whom and why does it matter?
What are the costs of (not) fitting in?
Who pays?
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Habitus, hysteresis and
habitus clivé
“There is nothing more practical than a good theory”
(Lewin 1952, p.169)
An elephant in the
learning analytics
room –
the obligation to act
By Paul Prinsloo (University of South Africa) &
Sharon Slade (Open University, UK)
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-playing-monopoly-one-player-is-given-all
The idea of habitus was born
from trying to make sense of
choices we have and make ,
considering our context, our
past and present, our
behaviors, our capital and
dispositions, and our
gendered and raced role(s),
relations and positions in a
particular context/field and
time - as embodied, as
‘structured and structuring
structure’
(Bourdieu, 1994, p. 170).
An elephant in the
learning analtics room
–
the obligation to act
By Paul Prinsloo (University of South Africa) &
Sharon Slade (Open University, UK)
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[(habitus) (capital)] + field = practice/agency
(Bourdieu 1984, p. 101).
An elephant in the
learning analytics
room –
the obligation to act
By Paul Prinsloo (University of South Africa) &
Sharon Slade (Open University, UK)
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So... when you change my position --whether
as student or as supervisor--
on the field, or change the field, or change the
rules or change the requirements and skills
required by the new field, role or rules, you
impact on my agency or, at least, my
perception thereof...
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And often, these changes result in a deep sense
of discomfort, of feeling out-of-place, of not
fitting in, of being
… an imposter/
nomad/deviant
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The phenomenon of a misfit between an individual’s
habitus and capital in a particular context is described
as the ‘hysteresis effect’ and a cleft in habitus or
habitus clivé
(Bourdieu & Passeron, 1977, p. 78)
Hysteresis //alienation (Marx in Fowler, 2003)//
anomie (Durkheim in Naudet, 2008)//torpor (Prinsloo, 2016)
An elephant in the
learning analytics
room –
the obligation to act
By Paul Prinsloo (University of South Africa) &
Sharon Slade (Open University, UK)
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Torpor as metaphor …
“It somehow gave me a handle, a way of making sense of my
own experiences of shutting down, Ctrl-Alt-Del, of playing
dead, of stop-the-world-I-want-to-get-off feelings”
(Prinsloo, 2016 – https://opendistanceteachingandlearning.wordpress.com/2016/10/24/a-blog-on-not-blogging/)
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Habitus clivé :When individuals move ‘upwards’,
individuals become class ‘transfuges’ -- caught in a
‘painful’ position of social limbo, of ‘double isolation’,
from both their origin and destination class
(Friedman, 2013, p. 10; Bourdieu, 1998b).
Becoming nomad/refugee -- ‘torn by contradiction
and internal division’ (Bourdieu, 2004 in Friedman, 2013, p. 11).
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Leaving many of us mulling around on the
banks of the Acheron, not sure whether or
not to pay Charon his price
(or bribe him)...
Processes - Inter & intra-personal domains
Attribution, locus of control, self-efficacy
Processes – Academic, operational, social
Attribution, locus of control, self-efficacy
THE STUDENT AS AGENT
IDENTITY, ATTRIBUTES, CAPITAL
& HABITUS
Success
Graduateness
Doctorateness
THE SUPERVISOR AS AGENT
IDENTITY, ATTRIBUTES, CAPITAL
& HABITUS
SHAPING CONDITIONS: (predictable as well as uncertain)
SHAPING CONDITIONS: (predictable as well as uncertain)
Choice,
Admission
Learning/supervision activities
THE SUPERVISION JOURNEY
Multiple, mutually constitutive
interactions between student,
institution & networks
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Adapted from: Subotzky, G., & Prinsloo, P. (2011). Turning the tide: a socio-critical model and framework for improving student success in open
distance learning at the University of South Africa. Distance Education, 32(2): 177-19.
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Pointers for a supervision contract between
institution-supervisors-students
Construct 1: Students, supervisors and the institution are situated
agents – [(habitus)(capital)] + field = agency/practice
-> How do we assess student and supervisor habitus/capital in a
particular field/context before admitting students and assigning
students to supervisors?
-> What are the processes and criteria for recognising the habitus
of students/supervisors and what do we consider ‘capital’?
-> How do we support students/supervisors when they experience
hysteresis/habitus clivé?
Adapted from Subotzky and Prinsloo (2011); Prinsloo, 2017)
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Pointers for a supervision contract between
institution-supervisors-students (cont.)
Construct 2: The supervision walk or “third space”– the
intersecting, mutually constitutive and often competing variables
in the nexus between student, supervisor, institution and macro-
societal context
-> How do we support this walk?
-> What are the co-responsibilities of students, supervisors and the
institution?
-> How can we assure that supervisors and students are not to
blame for systemic failures?
-> How do we assure that supervisors and students don’t hide
behind systemic failures – loci of control/self-efficacy?
Adapted from Subotzky and Prinsloo (2011); Prinsloo, 2017)
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Pointers for a supervision contract between
institution-supervisors-students (cont.)
Construct 3: The notion of ‘fit’ is a constitutive, layered element in
supervision success and intersect with the reality and impact of
hysteresis, and habitus clivé on the supervision process
Adapted from Subotzky and Prinsloo (2011); Prinsloo, 2017)
How do we facilitate/ensure the ‘fit’ between
• The student and his/her chosen focus, methodology, discipline,
institution, research expertise of the supervisor
• A student and his or her supervisor – interpersonal
• The supervisor and the amount and foci of students allocated to
him or her
• Student aspirations and time-management with the workload,
aspirations and time-management of supervisors
• Students and supervisors within the broader disciplinary networks
of inclusion and exclusion
• Students and supervisors in a particular political, social, economic,
technological, legal and environmental context
• A supervisor and institutional policy frameworks, processes,
networks of inclusion and exclusion, tacit knowledge and contacts
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And finally, how do we create space(s)
in the supervision process for …
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…those successful students and supervisors to share
their knowledge and capital and mentor others?
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…those students and supervisors who contest rules and
policies, who break the rules and write their own rules
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… all of us, students and supervisors, who negotiate
meaning in the graduate supervision process as a
strange land – where we are all, in one way or another,
imposters
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THANK YOU
Paul Prinsloo
Research Professor in Open Distance Learning (ODL)
College of Economic and Management Sciences,
Office number 3-15, Club 1, Hazelwood, P O Box 392
Unisa, 0003, Republic of South Africa
T: +27 (0) 12 433 4719 (office)
T: +27 (0) 82 3954 113 (mobile)
prinsp@unisa.ac.za
Skype: paul.prinsloo59
Personal blog: http://opendistanceteachingandlearning.wordpress.com
Twitter profile: @14prinsp
An elephant in the
learning analytics
room –
the obligation to act
By Paul Prinsloo (University of South Africa) &
Sharon Slade (Open University, UK)
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Understanding postgraduate supervision through a socio-critical lens

  • 1. Image credit: https://pixabay.com/en/alone-walking-night-people-city-764926/ Heroes, imposters and deviants in a strange land: A socio-critical model for understanding postgraduate supervision By Paul Prinsloo (University of South Africa) @14prinsp
  • 2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I do not own the copyright of any of the images in this presentation. I hereby acknowledge the original copyright and licensing regime of every image used. All the images used in this presentation have been sourced from Google, Pixabay and Flickr and were labeled for non-commercial reuse. This work (excluding the images goverened by their original licencing) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
  • 3. Pictures tap into a different vocabulary and offer a different lens on a phenomenon as experienced by the narrator (Shinebourne & Smith, 2010). Pictures, like metaphors, are not neutral but chosen, they are ideologically laden, immersed in fluid meanings, flowing from and perpetuating a particular social imaginary. Pictures also disturb, disrupt, challenge and, hopefully, slow down the discourses on graduate supervision, allow us to ask new questions, and, enable us “to comprehend partially what cannot be comprehended totally” (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, p. 193).
  • 5. An elephant in the learning analytics room – the obligation to act By Paul Prinsloo (University of South Africa) & Sharon Slade (Open University, UK) Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lollyman/4941417146 Image credit: Canadian Gunners in the Mud, Passchendaele by Lieutenant Alfred Bastien, 1917, oil on canvas. Retrieved from, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_art Higher education/graduate supervision as a battlefield of contesting claims– whether disciplinary, institutional, student and/or claims arising from our macro context.
  • 6. Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanorwood/1046416640 Let us explore postgraduate supervision as a phenomenon of ‘misfits’ and of not ‘fitting in’
  • 7. What follows is a reflection on how I describe the field I am playing on as supervisor… Imagecredit:http://www.artrix.co.uk/whats-on/cinema/i-daniel-blake
  • 8. An elephant in the learning analytics room – the obligation to act By Paul Prinsloo (University of South Africa) & Sharon Slade (Open University, UK) Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lollyman/4941417146 Shall I speak, or how shall I speak of … • Being a supervisor where everything is measured, counted and where numbers on spreadsheets are more important than the lives they represent • The (oc)cult of auditing, accountability, innovation and excellence -- where everyone signs oaths of transparency and ethics in often empty rituals of fake fraternisation • Increasing and contesting workloads • Students who are increasingly underprepared for scholarly engagement on graduate level • Supervisors who are underprepared to ask new questions and let go of answers and processes that may have been appropriate and effective in the past • Supervision is outsourced to the highest (or is it any available?) bidder • Being a supervisor where offline is no longer an option and where even when you are offline, you are “onlife” (The Onlife Manifesto, Floridi, 2015)
  • 9. Image credit: https://pixabay.com/en/wonder-woman-superman-superhero-552109/ In this strange land there are superheroes (Pitt & Mewburn, 2016)
  • 11. Image credit: https://pixabay.com/en/one-against-all-all-against-one-1744083/ In this strange land there are also, …imposters (McMillan, 2016) Those supervisors and students that never quite fit in, according to others, or feel that they fit in – forever nomad (Maritz & Prinsloo, 2015)
  • 12. Image credit: https://pixabay.com/en/one-against-all-all-against-one-1744086/ A strange land where novice researchers ‘Fake it till you [they] make it’ (Ivana, 2016)
  • 13. Postgraduate supervision: a question of ‘fit’ • ‘Fit’ between the student and his/her chosen focus, methodology, discipline, institution, research expertise of the supervisor • ‘Fit’ between the student and his or her supervisor - interpersonal • ‘Fit’ between the supervisor and the amount and foci of students allocated to him or her • ‘Fit’ between the student aspirations and time-management with the workload, aspirations and time-management of supervisors • ‘Fit’ of students and supervisors within the broader disciplinary networks of inclusion and exclusion • ‘Fit’ between students and supervisors in a particular political, social, economic, technological, legal and environmental context • ‘Fit’ between the supervisor and institutional policy frameworks, processes, networks of inclusion and exclusion, tacit knowledge and contacts (Adapted from Subotzky and Prinsloo, 2011; Prinsloo, 2017)
  • 14. Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lollyman/4941417146 Do I/they ‘fit’? How do I/they ‘fit’? According to whom and why does it matter? What are the costs of (not) fitting in? Who pays?
  • 15. Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/missmoon/1918473801 Habitus, hysteresis and habitus clivé “There is nothing more practical than a good theory” (Lewin 1952, p.169)
  • 16. An elephant in the learning analytics room – the obligation to act By Paul Prinsloo (University of South Africa) & Sharon Slade (Open University, UK) Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lollyman/4941417146 Image credit: http://thesociologicalcinema.tumblr.com/post/142531355075/youre -playing-monopoly-one-player-is-given-all The idea of habitus was born from trying to make sense of choices we have and make , considering our context, our past and present, our behaviors, our capital and dispositions, and our gendered and raced role(s), relations and positions in a particular context/field and time - as embodied, as ‘structured and structuring structure’ (Bourdieu, 1994, p. 170).
  • 17. An elephant in the learning analtics room – the obligation to act By Paul Prinsloo (University of South Africa) & Sharon Slade (Open University, UK) Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lollyman/4941417146 [(habitus) (capital)] + field = practice/agency (Bourdieu 1984, p. 101).
  • 18. An elephant in the learning analytics room – the obligation to act By Paul Prinsloo (University of South Africa) & Sharon Slade (Open University, UK) Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lollyman/4941417146 Image credit: https://pixabay.com/en/grass-green-football-football-field-1176417/ So... when you change my position --whether as student or as supervisor-- on the field, or change the field, or change the rules or change the requirements and skills required by the new field, role or rules, you impact on my agency or, at least, my perception thereof...
  • 19. Image credit: https://pixabay.com/en/man-luggage-forward-young-2138962/ And often, these changes result in a deep sense of discomfort, of feeling out-of-place, of not fitting in, of being … an imposter/ nomad/deviant
  • 20. Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lollyman/4941417146 Image credit: http://www.pixnio.com/fauna-animals/fishes/roach-fish-on-dry-land The phenomenon of a misfit between an individual’s habitus and capital in a particular context is described as the ‘hysteresis effect’ and a cleft in habitus or habitus clivé (Bourdieu & Passeron, 1977, p. 78) Hysteresis //alienation (Marx in Fowler, 2003)// anomie (Durkheim in Naudet, 2008)//torpor (Prinsloo, 2016)
  • 21. An elephant in the learning analytics room – the obligation to act By Paul Prinsloo (University of South Africa) & Sharon Slade (Open University, UK) Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lollyman/4941417146 Image credit: https://pixabay.com/en/bird-death-dead-829242/ Torpor as metaphor … “It somehow gave me a handle, a way of making sense of my own experiences of shutting down, Ctrl-Alt-Del, of playing dead, of stop-the-world-I-want-to-get-off feelings” (Prinsloo, 2016 – https://opendistanceteachingandlearning.wordpress.com/2016/10/24/a-blog-on-not-blogging/)
  • 22. Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cgpgrey/5023794412 Habitus clivé :When individuals move ‘upwards’, individuals become class ‘transfuges’ -- caught in a ‘painful’ position of social limbo, of ‘double isolation’, from both their origin and destination class (Friedman, 2013, p. 10; Bourdieu, 1998b). Becoming nomad/refugee -- ‘torn by contradiction and internal division’ (Bourdieu, 2004 in Friedman, 2013, p. 11).
  • 23. Image credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lytovchenko_Olexandr_Kharon.jpg Leaving many of us mulling around on the banks of the Acheron, not sure whether or not to pay Charon his price (or bribe him)...
  • 24. Processes - Inter & intra-personal domains Attribution, locus of control, self-efficacy Processes – Academic, operational, social Attribution, locus of control, self-efficacy THE STUDENT AS AGENT IDENTITY, ATTRIBUTES, CAPITAL & HABITUS Success Graduateness Doctorateness THE SUPERVISOR AS AGENT IDENTITY, ATTRIBUTES, CAPITAL & HABITUS SHAPING CONDITIONS: (predictable as well as uncertain) SHAPING CONDITIONS: (predictable as well as uncertain) Choice, Admission Learning/supervision activities THE SUPERVISION JOURNEY Multiple, mutually constitutive interactions between student, institution & networks F I T FIT F I T FIT F I T F I T F I T F I T F I T F I T F I T F I T THE INSTITUTION AS AGENT IDENTITY, ATTRIBUTES, CAPITAL & HABITUS F I T F I T F I T F I T Adapted from: Subotzky, G., & Prinsloo, P. (2011). Turning the tide: a socio-critical model and framework for improving student success in open distance learning at the University of South Africa. Distance Education, 32(2): 177-19.
  • 25. Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lollyman/4941417146 Pointers for a supervision contract between institution-supervisors-students Construct 1: Students, supervisors and the institution are situated agents – [(habitus)(capital)] + field = agency/practice -> How do we assess student and supervisor habitus/capital in a particular field/context before admitting students and assigning students to supervisors? -> What are the processes and criteria for recognising the habitus of students/supervisors and what do we consider ‘capital’? -> How do we support students/supervisors when they experience hysteresis/habitus clivé? Adapted from Subotzky and Prinsloo (2011); Prinsloo, 2017)
  • 26. Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lollyman/4941417146 Pointers for a supervision contract between institution-supervisors-students (cont.) Construct 2: The supervision walk or “third space”– the intersecting, mutually constitutive and often competing variables in the nexus between student, supervisor, institution and macro- societal context -> How do we support this walk? -> What are the co-responsibilities of students, supervisors and the institution? -> How can we assure that supervisors and students are not to blame for systemic failures? -> How do we assure that supervisors and students don’t hide behind systemic failures – loci of control/self-efficacy? Adapted from Subotzky and Prinsloo (2011); Prinsloo, 2017)
  • 27. Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lollyman/4941417146 Pointers for a supervision contract between institution-supervisors-students (cont.) Construct 3: The notion of ‘fit’ is a constitutive, layered element in supervision success and intersect with the reality and impact of hysteresis, and habitus clivé on the supervision process Adapted from Subotzky and Prinsloo (2011); Prinsloo, 2017)
  • 28. How do we facilitate/ensure the ‘fit’ between • The student and his/her chosen focus, methodology, discipline, institution, research expertise of the supervisor • A student and his or her supervisor – interpersonal • The supervisor and the amount and foci of students allocated to him or her • Student aspirations and time-management with the workload, aspirations and time-management of supervisors • Students and supervisors within the broader disciplinary networks of inclusion and exclusion • Students and supervisors in a particular political, social, economic, technological, legal and environmental context • A supervisor and institutional policy frameworks, processes, networks of inclusion and exclusion, tacit knowledge and contacts
  • 29. Image credit: https://pixabay.com/en/metro-station-wait-hold-on-905400/ And finally, how do we create space(s) in the supervision process for …
  • 30. Image credit: https://pixabay.com/en/photographer-hero-camera-action-1436917/ …those successful students and supervisors to share their knowledge and capital and mentor others?
  • 31. Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brianauer/2402882692 …those students and supervisors who contest rules and policies, who break the rules and write their own rules
  • 32. Image credit: https://pixabay.com/en/hallway-abandoned-damaged-deserted-1245845/ … all of us, students and supervisors, who negotiate meaning in the graduate supervision process as a strange land – where we are all, in one way or another, imposters
  • 33. Image credit: https://pixabay.com/en/empty-abandoned-messy-grunge-scene-863118/ THANK YOU Paul Prinsloo Research Professor in Open Distance Learning (ODL) College of Economic and Management Sciences, Office number 3-15, Club 1, Hazelwood, P O Box 392 Unisa, 0003, Republic of South Africa T: +27 (0) 12 433 4719 (office) T: +27 (0) 82 3954 113 (mobile) prinsp@unisa.ac.za Skype: paul.prinsloo59 Personal blog: http://opendistanceteachingandlearning.wordpress.com Twitter profile: @14prinsp
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