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1.What is a scholar in your view? What does scholarship mean to you?
A scholar is an individual that is actively engaged in the search for knowledge in a particular field of study, and also in sharing of that knowledge through teaching, learning, and research activities.2. What does it mean to be active in an academic community?
Being active in an academic community involves actively collaborating with others in carrying out activities such as teaching, learning, and research and data dissemination. It also means that one is able to keep up-to-date with the latest developments in a given field of study. I agree with @Abosede on the thought that an active scholar is one who is passionate about mentoring upcoming scholars.3. How can you introduce your students into this community? Is this part of the role of the supervisor?
A supervisor has a key role of introducing his/her students to an academic community. This can be done through creating platforms such as seminars for students to present their research findings and also critical review of selected research articles assigned to them in form of assignments. While doing my postgraduate studies, we had scheduled weekly seminars where you either present the progress of your research or you present a critical review of a journal paper reporting current research in your research area. This was a very good approach of developing our critical thinking which plays a major role in the academic community.What is a scholar in your view? What does scholarship mean to you?
A scholar is an expert or specialist in a particular field or discipline. A scholarship is whereby an individual earns a grant or payment for their education on the basis of their academic achievement.
What does it mean to be active in an academic community?
By conducting research as a PI or co PI and be able to present research findings in a scientific conference, publish the findings, supervise research activities and provide mentorship.How can you introduce your students into this community? Is this part of the role of the supervisor?Students can be introduced to an academic community by encouraging them to submit abstracts for conference calls for poster or oral presentations. A supervisor can sponsor a student to attend such conferences and co present with them withough expecting anything back.
What might a PG supervisor’s support network provide? How can such a network be built? Post graduate network opens doors for students to build their career after graduation by opening new doors for employment or promotion. This enables the student to build their career and advance their experience and expertise. Supervisors can help them knock on the right door, develop soft skills that make them interesting to work with such as confidence, humility, curiosity and listening.
Have you had experience of academic jealousies? What were the effects and was it resolved? Yes- winning a PhD Grant that was academically competitive came as a schoker. My Dean was told that I dint deserve it and I school board meeting it was discussed to my dismay. When I won another grant from the National Commission for Science and Technology which is open to all, my rivals were silenced. I tried to help them find an opportunity too and send them networks as much as possible.
How can you contribute to a more respectful and generous support network? My philosophy ‘Respect for human dignity’ People have a right to their own opinion, to grow and to determine what is best for their growth and development. The bitterest academic rival can be melted by one act of kindness that seems to meet their growth and development need so creating opportunities for inclusivity and networking and not taking it all can balance out any previous enmities.
A Scholar is someone who is an academic and involves themselves with creating and dissemination of knowledge. A scholar is involved in research and practice of the knowledge obtained in their field of profession. He or she is capable of guiding and mentoring emerging young scholars in their academic pursuit in research and knowledge creation. Scholarship is the practice of being a scholar who does as pertains to their area of profession, it involves a whole rounded knowledge creation and dissemination.
Being active in academic community envisages activeness in research and creation of knowledge. Interacting with peers in your area of specialty and multidisciplinary. To be active in academic community involves joint supervisions across disciplines, writing publications, attending workshops and conferences and participating in collaborative researches.
Students can be introduced in academic community through fostering them to publish their work, attending workshops and conference as well as engaging them as research assistants in the researches the supervisors could be involved in. To some extent yes, by introducing his or her student to the academic community it forms part of mentorship.
The Postgraduate supervisor’s network provides a platform for sharing knowledge and feedback which can enhance their efforts in guiding the students. By harnessing diversity in knowledge they can be privy of new theories or knowledge that can make them progressive in undertaking their supervisory roles. The network can be built through immediate colleagues, the Board of Postgraduate Studies and peers in the area of specialty.
Academic jealousies are normal especially when peers are working towards promotion. There are a lot of jostling and delays in reviewing students work. Amicable discussion across peers can help the through the stale mates. To enhance cooperation and teamwork, objectivity rather than subjectivity in feed back mechanism during co-supervision or panel supervision may foster synergy.1. A scholar is a person who is in love with Knowledge. Practically, the scholar takes for her occupation the pursuit, production and dissemination of knowledge.
2. One must first be a member of an academic community – a group of people engaged in teaching and researching. The level of activity will be gauged by participation in the activities that define the community: research, sharing of findings with fellow members of the group and the world, etc. Engagement in the organization of the group, the coming up with ways and technologies that make it easier for the group members to do what they do successfully is part of being active in the community.
3. It starts with enabling the students to get the credentials that qualify them for membership in the community. They must first learn to (love to) research and/or teach. Thereafter the encouragement to participate in workshops and conferences where they can meet other members of the community – some of whose work speaks more directly to the student’s work. This used to be part of the role of the supervisor ….
5. Not so much jealousies as the power play that comes as part of the territory.What is a scholar in your view? What does scholarship mean to you?
A scholar is an individual who attempts to keep abreast with developments in the discipline and more importantly,make their voice heard by critically challenging these developments and bringing in new insights into the discourse of that particular discipline. In short, a scholar should constantly make a contribution in building his/her discipline.What does it mean to be active in an academic community?
interact with the chiefs of that academic community. challenge their views and contribute to the discourses of the community. Even of more importance, appreciate to be challenged as well by community members, irrespective of their place in that community.How can you introduce your students into this community? Is this part of the role of the supervisor?
i would introduce my students to the community by enabling them to attend conferences, seminars and workshops around topics of interest. i would also introduce my students to key figures in the field. arrange for interview sessions with key figures on a topic that is close to their hearts or on a recent publication.
What might a PG supervisor’s support network provide? How can such a network be built?
PG supervisor support network should provide the following: notification on latest publications, introduce students to key scholars in the field, ensure that students participate actively in related conferences, sem/webinars and related activities.Have you had experience of academic jealousies? this is common in academic spaces.
What is a scholar in your view? What does scholarship mean to you?
A scholar is a specialist in a particular field of study and one who is actively engaged in research to advance issues related to the discipline.
What does it mean to be active in an academic community?
Actively engage in academic debates/discourse and joining professional bodies with strong academic networks
How can you introduce your students into this community? Is this part of the role of the supervisor? I do encourage my students to join professional bodies, publish their work in peer reviewed journals, attend seminars and conferences to expose them to academic community.
What might a PG supervisor’s support network provide? How can such a network be built? PG Supervisor Network are important is refining research designs which is vital for successful research.2 What does it mean to be active in an academic community?
An academic community can be group of people (read academics) involved in continuous generation of knowledge through their expertise. To be active in an academic community calls for one to:
– Engage actively with peers, Generate and share knowledge about the best practices related to one’s discipline, Encourage and cultivate innovative skill and practice sets in others, Develop academic networks for engagement in joint activities, Participate actively in training/networking /group/community activities, Engage in finding solutions to shared problems/challenges in ones’ discipline, Participate in supporting and fostering social fabric and space crucial for learning,What might a PG supervisor’s support network provide? How can such a network be built?
A PG support network can help when one needs ideas on how to handle post graduate related issues. for example, if you find yourself in unchartered waters with a student the PG support can give you ideas on how to tackle the situation especially from the more experienced colleagues. one can also draw from the PG support group in terms of advisory of methodologies you may not be familiar with, suggestions for possible external examiners etc. It is simply the “go to” before you escalate a situation to the next level. The CPC course may provide a platform from where a PG support group can be formed; but usually people that have worked together in projects, proposal writing, interacted in workshops, conferences etc sessions and find that they have a certain ideals regarding scholarly work tend to form “non informal” PG support groups. (free writing exercise)What is a scholar in your view? What does scholarship mean to you?
A scholar to me is someone who has built up expertise in a particular area and scholarship is a lifelong journey of discovery and learning more about various areas including the one in which one is an expert.
Scholarship is a lot about curiosity to me.
What does it mean to be active in an academic community?
It means engaging with other scholars in your area and those outside of it through processes like peer review, attending lectures and reading what other people are working on.
How can you introduce your students into this community? Is this part of the role of the supervisor?
One way of introducing students to a scholarly community is by recommending relevant material, introducing them to people at conferences or other events, and online repositories where they are relevant. I would consider this an aspect of mentoring in the supervision function.
What might a PG supervisor’s support network provide? How can such a network be built?
A network can provide advice on topics/readings that are new or unknown to the supervisor and can be useful when one is considering examiners if the people work in the same field.
Networking mostly happens at conferences in my field. One can also develop networks within their graduate cohorts and online. Increasingly, networking has been made somewhat easier by social media.
Have you had experience of academic jealousies? What were the effects and was it resolved? How can you contribute to a more respectful and generous support network?
Yes and no. The effects usually is mistrust and it often happens in cohorts where people see other people doing well as taking something away from them. Sometimes one can neutralize the situation by creating healthy competition, at other times, the conflict cannot be resolved for whatever reason and one just needs to make peace with it and rise above, I guess.
What is a scholar in your view? What does scholarship mean to you?
A scholar to me is someone who has built up expertise in a particular area and scholarship is a lifelong journey of discovery and learning more about various areas including the one in which one is an expert.
Scholarship is a lot about curiosity to me.
What does it mean to be active in an academic community?
It means engaging with other scholars in your area and those outside of it through processes like peer review, attending lectures and reading what other people are working on.
How can you introduce your students into this community? Is this part of the role of the supervisor?
One way of introducing students to a scholarly community is by recommending relevant material, introducing them to people at conferences or other events, and online repositories where they are relevant. I would consider this an aspect of mentoring in the supervision function.
What might a PG supervisor’s support network provide? How can such a network be built?
A network can provide advice on topics/readings that are new or unknown to the supervisor and can be useful when one is considering examiners if the people work in the same field.
Networking mostly happens at conferences in my field. One can also develop networks within their graduate cohorts and online. Increasingly, networking has been made somewhat easier by social media.
Have you had experience of academic jealousies? What were the effects and was it resolved? How can you contribute to a more respectful and generous support network?
Yes and no. The effects usually is mistrust and it often happens in cohorts where people see other people doing well as taking something away from them. Sometimes one can neutralize the situation by creating healthy competition, at other times, the conflict cannot be resolved for whatever reason and one just needs to make peace with it and rise above, I guess.
What is a scholar in your view? What does scholarship mean to you?
A scholar to me is someone who has built up expertise in a particular area and scholarship is a lifelong journey of discovery and learning more about various areas including the one in which one is an expert.
Scholarship is a lot about curiosity to me.
What does it mean to be active in an academic community?
It means engaging with other scholars in your area and those outside of it through processes like peer review, attending lectures and reading what other people are working on.
How can you introduce your students into this community? Is this part of the role of the supervisor?
One way of introducing students to a scholarly community is by recommending relevant material, introducing them to people at conferences or other events, and online repositories where they are relevant. I would consider this an aspect of mentoring in the supervision function.
What might a PG supervisor’s support network provide? How can such a network be built?
A network can provide advice on topics/readings that are new or unknown to the supervisor and can be useful when one is considering examiners if the people work in the same field.
Networking mostly happens at conferences in my field. One can also develop networks within their graduate cohorts and online. Increasingly, networking has been made somewhat easier by social media.
Have you had experience of academic jealousies? What were the effects and was it resolved? How can you contribute to a more respectful and generous support network?
Yes and no. The effects usually is mistrust and it often happens in cohorts where people see other people doing well as taking something away from them. Sometimes one can neutralize the situation by creating healthy competition or collaborative environments, at other times, the conflict cannot be resolved for whatever reason and one just needs to make peace with it and rise above, I guess.
I usually get my students to identify and read the work of key authors in the specific area of the discipline in which their topic is based. As they read around the topic they find people others quote alot and who publish often in the subject area. Through this they are able to identify key positions relevant to their topic.
I participate in networks in the specific subject area in which I conduct research and alot of students I supervise prefer less biomedical approaches hence I use the method I indicate above to introduce them to the community in which their work is based.
@ Jackline, I like the idea of seminars.
A scholar is a specialist in a particular field or part of that field. In my field, Educational Management, we have a variety of specialists, e.g. for school governance, leadership, management (sub-fields: curriculum management, extra curricula management, managing social partners (teachers’ unions, parents, business etc), administration and etc. So, scholarship means acquiring/having knowledge resulting from study and research of a particular field (or part). This specialisation leads one to become a member of an academic community (like-mindedness people) known as Communities of Practice (CoPs). As a supervisor one has a role to introduce one’s students into their CoPs. This is done by teaching/training students the ‘what’ and the ‘how’regarding the speaking and writing of the language, knowledge and skills of the field. This is done by explicitly teaching/showing students the skill, letting them practice the skill and giving corrective feedback and praise and allow students to use the skill in research activities and in other diverse situations. These entail to arrange for students to present their work at seminars within the university, attend academic meetings or conferences and present their work and where possible to assist them to publish their work.
A scholar is someone who is interested in a field of study and constantly makes a conscious effort to read and get updated about latest research in that field. That person also regularly contributes to that field of knowledge, through the dissemination of their research findings and (new) perspectives in the area of study in the form of journal articles and books. A scholar also finds other ways to contribute to discussions that impact the practice in the field.
Being active in an academic community means that the scholar regularly takes part in the conversations in the field of interest through various platforms such as conferences, publications, etc.
Students can be introduced into the academic community by letting them take part in programmes that bring scholars in the field together, such conferences and seminars . It is an opportunity for them to get to know know who is doing what and also share what they are doing and get feedback. Through these, they gradually become part of a network of fellow scholars with whom they regularly connect and share ideas.
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