- Title
- Research supervision experiences of masters in education students at a South African University
- Creator
- Ganqa, Ncumisa Hazel
- Subject
- Universities and colleges -- South Africa -- Evaluation
- Subject
- Graduate students -- Research -- South Africa
- Subject
- Education -- South Africa -- Quality control
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- M Ed
- Identifier
- vital:16176
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/473
- Identifier
- Universities and colleges -- South Africa -- Evaluation
- Identifier
- Graduate students -- Research -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Education -- South Africa -- Quality control
- Description
- In recent years, transformation in South African Universities saw an increase in the number of postgraduate students enrolling for Masters’ research programmes as access and educational opportunities have been widened. The purpose of this research was to investigate research supervision experiences of Masters postgraduate students. A qualitative, contextual, descriptive and phenomenological research design was used to explore the experiences of the 2010 MEd cohort at a purposively chosen university. This was a small scale study of six participants in different stages of their research projects sampled purposively. The preferred phenomenological interview method of gathering information from the subjects was in-depth unstructured interviews. This research study revealed that the postgraduate students at the University under investigation still continue to experience the traditional model of a single supervisor supervising a strictly research based work. The most crucial component of research supervision experiences that emerged was the quality of supervision between supervisors and supervisees which revealed power struggles in supervisory relationships. Such relationships emerged as push and pull, fight or flight amongst different individual participants and their supervisors.
- Format
- xi, 114 leaves; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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