Investigating the supervisor's education: actions, activities and dispositions involved in guiding scientific research

• Grant number: 16/09700-3
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: October 01, 2017
• End date: September 30, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Specific topics in Education
• Principal Investigator: Luciana Massi
• Grantee: Luciana Massi
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Marcelo Giordan Santos
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/26678-7 - Investigating the supervisor's education: actions, activities and dispositions involved in guiding scientific research, BP.TT

Abstract

The growing importance of research in university highlights the supervisor's role in the direction and quality of this area. However, their education and practice aren't subject to training or research in any specific area and generally aren't even discussed within the university. Based on our previous research and survey of literature we realized that more studies are required and more profound theoretical investigations on this topic would contribute to transform supervision into a more professional activity rather than maintain a current situation in which it is guided almost exclusively by intuition and imitation of previous role models. Therefore, in this project, supported by the sociocultural perspective and dispositionalist sociology, it is our objective to answer the following questions: Which dispositions, activities and actions are involved in supervision and how are they formed and organized? These two theories are based on the assumption that any activity, action or social practice must be understood from the interrelationship between social context and individual action, so they complement each other representing a fertile perspective for this study. This research started from previous data collected with tutors from a specialization course on their first experience as supervisors with a view to advancing and deepening the analysis of these data. A new data collection, through qualitative interviews and local observations, will investigate the tutors who, five years after their initial experience, work in higher education as supervisors. In addition, the project provides a theoretical effort to articulate the sociocultural perspective and dispositionalist sociology in the data analysis in order to understand the structure and organization of supervision activities. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MARCELO GIORDAN; LUCIANA MASSI. A revista Ciência Hoje das Crianças e o encaminhamento para carreiras científicas: uma análise do cronotopo da seção “Eu li, eu leio”. Ciência e Educação, v. 25, n. 4, p. 927-944, 2019-12-20. (16/09700-3)