Our Lectures in Linguistic Diversity are back for another year and we are starting with a guest lecture by Dr David Hyatt, University of Sheffield, UK.
Date: Tuesday, 10 March
Time: 11:00-12:00
Venue: Macquarie University, AHH 16UA 1.602 Faculty Seminar Rm
Critical inclusion and the doctoral student – disrupting hierarchies through decentering and decolonising pedagogies
This seminar aims to trouble and reconfigure the traditional relationship between a doctoral student and ‘supervisor’ in terms of its power differential, often characterised as an asymmetric, hierarchical expert/novice dyad, which can trap supervisory relationships in a ‘transmission’ or ‘training’ mode, with students receiving ‘instruction’ from ‘experts’. I consider how we can rethink, disrupt and disorient dominant conceptions of doctoral pedagogy, to build a more collaborative, collegial ‘decentred’ approach to supervisory work.
This work, drawing on interdisciplinary theoretical and conceptual resources from cultural sociology, anthropology, organizational studies and education, argues the liminal spaces students pass through offer opportunities for relational, productive and decentred pedagogies, where supervisors/advisors construct ways of valuing their students’ expertise, and facilitate a critical inclusion within the academic discourse community. Doctoral pedagogies should aim to develop repertoires of successful members of the discourse community – mirroring professional ways of being, and doing research work. A student’s doctoral repertoire will be indexical and biographical, grounded in the plethora of networks, communities and resources they learn through, and forming a distributed patchwork of competencies, dispositions and values.
The paper discusses recommendations for doctoral pedagogic practices and the implications such decentring orientations have for decolonizing doctoral pedagogies.
Find out more about Dr David Hyatt.
Reports about previous Lectures in Linguistic Diversity
- Bilingual children in preschool
- Secrets of bilingual parenting success
- Asylum interviews as linguistic conflict zones
- Are bilinguals better language learners?
- What do migrant parents expect from schools?
- Bilingual children refusing to speak the home language
- How can we change language habits?
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