Promoting creativity in PhD supervision: Tensions and dilemmas

Thinking Skills and Creativity

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 143-153

  Whitelock, Denise ^a   Faulkner, Dorothy ^a   Miell, Dorothy ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic creativity; Doctoral students; Doctoral supervisors

Indexed keywords

EID: 50149097018     PISSN: 18711871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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