Agonistic struggle: Master-slave dialogues in humanities supervision

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-27

  Grant, Barbara M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Dialogue; Hegel; Master and slave; Postgraduate supervision; Power relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249126506     PISSN: 14740222     EISSN: 1741265X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474022207084880     Document Type: Article

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