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Meta-communication and postures

Meta-communication and postures. Why is he not getting results? . I don’t want to do the project his way. Postures in supervision. Closing decision space or decreasing options. Intensions not shared. Intensions shared Transparency. Opening decision space or increasing options.

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Meta-communication and postures

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  1. Meta-communication and postures Why is he not getting results? I don’t want to do the project his way Department of Science Education

  2. Postures in supervision Closing decision space or decreasing options Intensions not shared Intensions shared Transparency Opening decision space or increasing options Adapted from Strong et al. 2008. Karl Tomm’s Collaborative Approaches to Counselling. Canadian Journal of Counselling, Vol.43:3, pp 174-191. Department of Science Education

  3. Postures in supervision Closing decision space or decreasing options Instruction almost manipulation Expert Intensions not shared Intensions shared Transparency Helper Succorance Empowerment Opening decision space or increasing options Adapted from Strong et al. 2008. Karl Tomm’s Collaborative Approaches to Counselling. Canadian Journal of Couselling, Vol.43:3, pp 174-191. Department of Science Education

  4. Roles as a supervising technique • To take on different hats • The bloody-minded examiner, • The sceptical reader, • The representative of a competing research approach • The positive and praising • The devil’s advocate • …to make feedback lesspersonal and easier to take in. Department of Science Education

  5. Some advise for becoming better supervisors • Listen and ask questions • Show that you can make mistakes • Provide a number of ideas for your PhD-student not commands • Remember you can learn from your PhD-students • Assist the PhD-student in becoming the topic owner • Accept that the PhD-student sometimes takes decisions that you would not do • Make the PhD-students take advantages of other colleagues competences • Be open to other theoretical and methodological perspectives than the ones you are familiar with

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