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Teaching and learning in the supervision of Maori doctoral students

Funding year: 
2007
Duration:
2 years
Organisation: 
Auckland UniServices
Sector: 
Post school sector
Project start date: 
January 2007
Project end date: 
January 2009
Principal investigator(s): 
Dr. Elizabeth McKinley and Dr Barbara Grant
Research team members: 
Barbara Grant, Sue Middleton, Kathie Irwin, Les R. Tumoana Williams
Research partners: 
The University of Auckland, Waikato University, Te Puni Kokiri, Ngä Pae o Te Märamatanga, AUT University

Project Description

The primary goal for the research was to enhance our understanding of the supervision of Mäori doctoral candidates (from both students’ and supervisors’ perspectives) so as to improve outcomes for those candidates and their institutions. The research questions were:

  • How do Mäori doctoral students and their supervisors work together as teachers and learners in supervision?
  • How can supervision capability be improved to support better outcomes for Mäori doctoral students and their institutions?

Project Outputs

This project produced a series of resource sheets He Rautaki mo te Akoranga Kairangi - Strategies for Doctoral Studies. These resource sheets offer advice for doctoral students and are downloadable (see links in Outputs section below).

2012

Publications

Grant, B.M., & McKinley, E (2012, forthcoming) Expanding pedagogical boundaries: indigenous students undertaking doctoral education. In Lee, A. & Danby, S. (Eds) Reshaping Doctoral Education: Changing programs and pedagogies [Routledge].

2011

Publications

McKinley, E., Grant, B., Middleton, S., Irwin, K., Williams, L. T.  (2011) Working the interface: Indigenous students engage in doctoral education.  Equity & Excellence in Education, 44(1), 115-132

McKinley, E. & Grant, B.M. (2011). Expanding pedagogical boundaries: Indigenous students undertaking doctoral education. In A. Lee & S. Danby (Eds), Reshaping doctoral education: International approaches and pedagogies. London: Routledge (204-217)

Grant, B.M. & McKinley, E. (2011). Colouring in the pedagogy of doctoral supervision: Considering supervisor, student and knowledge through the lens of indigeneity. Innovations in Education & Teaching International, 48(4), 365-374.

2010

Publications

Grant, B.M. (2010). The limits of ‘teaching and learning’: Indigenous students and doctoral supervision. Teaching in Higher Education 15(5), 505-517.

Grant, B.M. (2010). Challenging matters: Doctoral supervision in post-colonial sites. Acta Academica Supplementum 2010 (1), 103-129.

Middleton, S. & McKinley, E. (2010). The gown and the korowai: Māori doctoral students and the spatial organisation of academic knowledge. Higher Education Research & Development 29 (3), 229-243.

McKinley, E. & Grant, B. M. (2010). Promoting and Strengthening Indigenous Doctoral Education: A discussion paper from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Report for the Australasian Deans and Directors of Graduate Studies. (16 pages).

2009

Publications

McKinley, E., Grant, B., Middleton, S., Irwin, K., Tumoana Williams, L.  (2009)  Supervision of Māori doctoral students: a descriptive report.  MAI Review 2009, 1 Article    6, 12pp, www.review.mai.ac.nz

Presentations, conferences and workshops

American Education Research Association (AERA) Conference, San Diego, 13-17 April.  Elizabeth McKinley presented a paper: To the highest degree: Māori doctoral students’ experiences of supervision.

Postgraduate Supervision: Research and Practice, Stellenbosch University, 27-30 April. Barbara Grant presented an invited keynote: ‘Challenging matters: Accounts of doctoral supervision from indigenous students and settler supervisors’.

HERDSA Conference, Charles Darwin University, 6-9 July. Barbara Grant presented a paper: ‘Unnatural Selection? The civilising mission of doctoral education’.

AA/TLRI Colloquium Tertiary Research in Progress, 7 September.  Barbara Grant presented an update on TLRI-funded project: ‘Teaching and Learning in the Supervision of Māori Doctoral Students’.

MAI Doctoral Conference, Otago University/Karitane Marae, 8-11 October.  Liz McKinley & Barbara Grant presented the TLRI-fundedresearch to current Maori Doctoral Students: ‘From Strength to Strength: Teaching and Learning in the Supervision of Māori Doctoral Students’.

British Education Research Association (BERA), University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 2-5 September.  Sue Middleton & Elizabeth McKinley presented a paper: The gown and the korowai: Māori doctoral students and the spatial organisation of academic knowledge.

ATLAANZ Conference, Massey University Albany, 18 November. Liz McKinley & Barbara Grant presented the TLRI-funded research to student learning advisors, ‘Finding fitting pathways: Providing culturally responsive academic advising to Māori doctoral students’.

ASDUNZ Meeting, 26-27 November. Barbara Grant presented the TLRI-funded research to academic developers, ‘“The single biggest intellectual opportunity for the nation”: Preparing supervisors to work with Māori doctoral students’.

2007

Publications

Smith, K. (2007). Supervision and Māori doctoral students: A discussion piece. Mai Review 3 2007 (4 pp), www.review.mai.ac.nz

McKinley, E., Grant, B., Middleton, S., Irwin, K., & Williams, L. T. (2007). Teaching and Learning in the Supervision of Māori Doctoral Students, Mai Review 2 2007 (6 pp), www.review.mai.ac.nz