Supervising Postgraduates From Non-English Speaking Backgrounds - Softcover

Ryan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 033520371X ISBN 13: 9780335203710

Publisher: Open University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Many universities in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have come to rely heavily on the fees received from postgraduate research students who come from non-English speaking backgrounds (NESB). These students must make huge adaptations: to another language, an alien culture, a different tradition of learning. They may suffer acute loneliness, confusion about cultural norms in the host country and, in consequence, their study may suffer.

If universities are to maintain and expand their NESB numbers, they must first understand the dilemmas faced by many NESB students in English-speaking university systems, and then devise programmes and approaches which will ensure a productive outcome for such students. This book provides important insights into the lives of NESB postgraduate students and suggests valuable strategies for universities and individual supervisors. It is the first book to tackle these issues, it gives voice to both students and supervisors, and provides practical guidance. It is a significant resource both for institutions (for international offices, research centres, and departments) and for individual supervisors.

About this title

About the Author:

Yoni Ryan is a Senior Lecturer in the Teaching and Learning Support Services Unit at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. She works in staff development for flexible delivery, open learning and new uses of educational technology; and has conducted and facilitated numerous workshops on enhancing the quality of postgraduate supervision.

Ortun Zuber-Skerritt has published widely and conducted workshops in Europe, South Africa, New Zealand, Asia, and Australia on action learning for organizational development, enhancing the quality of postgraduate supervision, research skills development, and departmental development processes. She is Adjunct Professor both in the Faculty of Education at Griffith University and in the Institute for Workplace Research, Learning and Development at Southern Cross University, Australia.

Review:

"...first rate: scholarly, insightful with delightful literary touches...and always with an eye to the struggling practitioner." - Professor Stuart Rees "...sources are extensive, drawing on empirical research, knowledge acquired from professional practice and contributions from literature, poetry and history. This weighty combination of ingredients has produced a richly substantial work." - Community Care "Colin Pritchard has written a book about suicide that should provide psychiatric social workers with abalanced and multi-disciplinary approach to the subject that it is to be hoped will help them intheir vital task of reducing Britain's low but much too high suicide rate." - Reviewing Sociology "I enjoyed reading the book, and would recommend it to those with a particular interest in suicide." - Journal of Public Health Medicine "Pritchard has accomplished the difficult feat of producing a book that should appeal to a wide variety of professionals, including psychiatric trainees." - British Journal of Psychiatry "...a very useful starting point for debate, and make it 'recommended reading' onstudent reading lists." - Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing (Generation of PM publication page 223) "...a thoroughly professional piece of work which ought to be read by every serving chaplain." - Royal Navy Chaplains Book "...this informed, packed book has much to recommend it." - Journal of Social Work Practice "...refreshingly cross-national in its perspective." - Contemporary Psychology "Pritchards book informed me of what appropriate professional health and social services would look like and so helped me to help young people know what to ask for." - Youth and Policy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 033520371X
• ISBN 13: 9780335203710
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 193