social inclusion Archives - Enhancing Postgraduate Environments https://postgradenvironments.com/tag/social-inclusion/ Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:18:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://postgradenvironments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/favicon.png social inclusion Archives - Enhancing Postgraduate Environments https://postgradenvironments.com/tag/social-inclusion/ 32 32 Working towards social inclusion: A humanising pedagogy https://postgradenvironments.com/2020/10/12/working-towards-social-inclusion-a-humanising-pedagogy/ Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:17:31 +0000 http://postgradenvironments.com/?p=1074 Supervisors often make assumptions about what their students are able to do. The assumption is that their undergraduate learning provided them with a solid foundation...

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]]> Supervisors often make assumptions about what their students are able to do. The assumption is that their undergraduate learning provided them with a solid foundation for the kind of work required at postgraduate level. This presentation challenges that view and calls supervisors to reflect on their assumptions about their students and what each of their students brings into the supervisory relationship. Supervisors are challenged to think about supervision differently – as a way of inducting students into a disciplinary knowledge community and reflecting on which students are excluded or often struggle with postgraduate studies in their disciplines.

Prof Sioux McKenna put together this presentation. The material was originally developed for a postgraduate supervision course.

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Who might find this useful?

This material is mainly for supervisors.

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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.

Who might find this useful?

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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