[Austine Amukayia Mulama]

in reply to: Module 4, Session 4: dive deeper #5800

After reading chapter 6 of Mckena et al. (2017), Ifind it to be general and not giving the intended information. Thus, as a supervisor or a student, not all required information one is looking for can be found under one book or article but in several books or articles. This means, one must develop a culture of reading…

[Austine Amukayia Mulama]

in reply to: Module 2, Session 2: Scholarly community of practice #5799

Scholar – a learner
Scholarship – grants, funds, money used to suport one to learn in a given thematic area

[Austine Amukayia Mulama]

in reply to: Module 1, Session 4: National Policies #5798

University policies on plagiarism, rules and regulations of conduct of research, requirements by Commission for University Education which formulates University Standards and Guidelines.

[Austine Amukayia Mulama]

in reply to: Module 1, Session 2: Supervision with a humanizing pedagogy #5396

The PPT slides enlights us on the importance of researchers being the experts in their area of interest rather than being just ‘technicians’

[Austine Amukayia Mulama]

in reply to: Module 1, Session 2: Variables and dynamics in the supervision process #5395

All the below factors contribute to the supervision environment
Gender
‘Race’
Socioeconomic class
Communication style
Status
Knowledge
Topic/Field
Personality
Nationality
Religion/Culture
Age
Language
However, communication, knowledge/research field, personality plays a major role.

[Austine Amukayia Mulama]

in reply to: Module 1, Session: Discussion #5393

Inadequate human resources, research equipment, training (refresher courses like CPC -Supervision), lack of motivation (both intrinsic and extrinsic) lead to low quality research and poor supervision especially in developing countries.

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