The Global Scholar: Implications for postgraduate studies and supervision (Research into Higher Education)

The Global Scholar: Implications for postgraduate studies and supervision (Research into Higher Education)

In our rapidly globalising world, “the global scholar” is a key concept for reimagining the roles of academics at the nexus of the global and the local. This book critically explores the implications of the concept for understanding postgraduate studies and supervision. It uses three conceptual lenses – “horizon”, “currency” and “trajectory” – to organise the thirteen chapters, concluding with a reflection on the implications of Covid-19 for postgraduate studies and supervision. Authors bring their perspectives on the global scholar from a variety of contexts, including South Africa, Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Germany, Cyprus, Kenya and Israel. They explore issues around policy, research and practice, sharing a concern with the relation between the local and the global, and a passion for advancing postgraduate studies and supervision. Peter Rule is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Higher and Adult Education at Stellenbosch University. He has thirty years' experience of working in adult and higher education in South Africa. He has published in the areas of adult education, dialogue and learning, reading education, disability and HIV/AIDS in education. His books include Dialogue and Boundary Learning (Sense Publishers, 2015) and (with Vaughn John) Your guide to case study research (Van Schaik, 2011). He has also worked in not-for-profit organisations involved in adult literacy, early childhood education and language education. ORCID id: https: //orcid.org/0000-0002-4746-8482 Eli Bitzer is Professor Emeritus in higher education studies and a past director of the Centre for Higher and Adult Education at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He has been a study leader to 92 master's and doctoral graduates and contributed over 90 articles to scholarly journals and chapters to academic books. He also chaired four international conferences on postgraduate supervision and published widely on the topic. Eli facilitates workshops on doctoral education and supervision and has a keen interest in promoting the quality of higher education in South Africa.ORCID: https: //orcid.org/0000-0003-4081-8053 Liezel Frick is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies, Director of the Centre for Higher and Adult Education in the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and Research Fellow: DSI/NRF Centre of Excellence in STI Policy, Stellenbosch University. Her research interests are within the broader field of doctoral education, with a particular focus on aspects of doctoral creativity and originality, learning during the doctorate, and doctoral supervision. She currently holds a South African National Research Foundation C1 rating. ORCID: https: //orcid.org/0000-0002-4797-3323