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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN DOCTORAL WRITING
GROUPS
D r J e a n n i e D a n i e l sL a Tr o b e U n i v e r s i t y M e l b o u r n e A u s t r a l i a
Developing Capability
the Writing Group
The notion of Capability
How the two came together as research
Continuing the conversation
My work
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria.
Faculty of Law & Management – Law, Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management & Tourism.
PhD candidates from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, fewer from European countries, as well as Australia.
Questions related to my role
How does doctoral study at La Trobe benefit these students?
What kind of professional identity is being built, or built upon? And
How to facilitate the doctoral process as identity development, agency, and negotiation of the role of knowledge worker?
Other benefits
Confidence
Self-awareness/identity
Awareness of difference and own agency/reflexivity
Changing ideas about how to ‘use’ their doctoral skills
Capability
‘a critique of other approaches to thinking about human well-being’
(Walker & Unterhalter 2007)
Transnational spaces
‘How the world is constituted by cross-border
relationships, patterns of economic, political
and cultural relations...
...the multiple and messy proximities through
which human societies have now become
globally interconnected and interdependent’
(Rizvi 2010, p 160)
The Research Questions
Does participation in doctoral writing groups lead to ‘Capability' through development of high level academic and self-management skills?
If so, how does this happen within the writing group?
Confidence with self (personal attributes) self assessed improvement in thinking at doctoral
level; a sense of purpose/sense of 'self'; clarity of future goals; self-assessment of personal and learner development.
Outward confidence (communicative attributes)
demonstrably increasing confidence, improved writing at doctoral level;
eagerness to give opinion; demonstrated skills in giving critique, and receiving
and acting on critique from peers.
Capability?
‘what makes it any different?’
A useful concept?
Just another way of looking at the pedagogy of the writing group?
How do we theorise and research the work we do with international students? And do it well?
References
Rizvi, F. 2010. International students and doctoral studies in transnational spaces. In: Walker, M. & Thomson, P. (eds.) The Routledge doctoral supervisor's companion:supporting effective research in education and the social sciences. London & New York: Routledge, 158-170.
Walker, M. & Unterhalter, E. 2007. The Capability Approach: its potential for work in education. In: Walker, M. & Unterhalter, E. (eds.) Amartya Sen's capability approach and social justice in education. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 1-18.