Orientations to research higher degree supervision

Higher Education

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 209-234

  Murphy, Noela ^a   Bain, John D ^b   Conrad, Linda ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Controlling; Guiding; Orientations; Person focussed; Research higher degree (RHD) supervision; Task focussed

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845971832     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-005-5608-9     Document Type: Article

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