public good Archives - Enhancing Postgraduate Environments https://postgradenvironments.com/tag/public-good/ Tue, 26 Mar 2024 08:08:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://postgradenvironments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/favicon.png public good Archives - Enhancing Postgraduate Environments https://postgradenvironments.com/tag/public-good/ 32 32 Purpose of Postgraduate Education https://postgradenvironments.com/2024/03/19/purpose-of-postgraduate-education/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 10:49:48 +0000 https://postgradenvironments.com/?p=1206 This series of videos emerges from the Enabling Quality Postgraduate Education project, which brings together Deputy Vice-Chancellors, Directors of Research, Directors of Postgraduate Studies, and...

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]]> This series of videos emerges from the Enabling Quality Postgraduate Education project, which brings together Deputy Vice-Chancellors, Directors of Research, Directors of Postgraduate Studies, and Deans to reflect with postgraduate scholars on quality in postgraduate education. You can learn more about this project, funded by the Department of Higher Education and Training in South Africa and led by Professors Sioux McKenna and Stephanie Burton by visiting the project website.

In this video, the focus is on how the purpose of postgraduate education. There are a number of private and public goods associated with postgraduate study: the individual becomes more knowledgeable and more employable, they are able to contribute their knowledge to society, the knowledge created can benefit people and the planet. But these purposes of postgraduate education are often in tension with the commodification of knowledge and the enormous pressures on candidates to complete in regulation time.

This video was produced by Sinethemba Oz Konzaphi. Thanks to all who provided their inputs into this video.

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Who might find this useful?

This might be a useful video to include in a supervision development course, along with the ‘Briefly Speaking’ above.

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]]> Social Justice in Research https://postgradenvironments.com/2017/09/18/social-justice-research/ Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:04:27 +0000 http://postgradenvironments.com/?p=636 Is your research serving a social justice agenda? Does postgraduate research serve a public good? These are some of the questions this interactive video raises....

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]]> Is your research serving a social justice agenda? Does postgraduate research serve a public good? These are some of the questions this interactive video raises. Inserts from various supervisors and postgraduate scholars are interspersed with 3 minute tasks which the viewer is asked to complete on their own or in discussion with others.

The video challenges us to focus on the extent to which the university is a space of flourishing and personal growth or is experienced as alienating and exclusionary. This broader focus then narrows down to questions of how our research might contribute to goals beyond our own attaining of a qualification so that it contributes to broader concerns of knowledge development and social justice.

Developed by Sioux McKenna of Rhodes University. Thanks to Dinah Arnott for her assistance in editing this video.

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This 20-minute video can be used as a self-study material or as part of a workshop. Its aim is not to teach about social justice in research but rather to stimulate discussion about the relationship between research and social justice. There are opportunities for the viewer to engage with critical questions so have a pen and paper ready!

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