TY - JOUR
T1 - Academic staff as 'transition managers' in interdisciplinary, international MA education
T2 - A Danish case study
AU - Tange, Hanne
PY - 2019/8
Y1 - 2019/8
N2 - The article builds on an empirical study of knowledge practices in international, interdisciplinary MA education, foregrounding the role of academic staff in identifying and explicating academic norms to students recruited from different subject areas and institutions. A central theme is transition, which refers to the state of liminality that postgraduates can experience when new to a discipline, institution and socio-cultural context. The author argues for lecturers as ‘transition managers’, who may ease students’ transfer into an unfamiliar academic culture. This argument is explored in an analysis of interview data collected from four MA courses, which suggests that lecturers’ transition management involves an awareness of classroom diversity, an acceptance of responsibility for academic socialisation and the development of new pedagogic practices.
AB - The article builds on an empirical study of knowledge practices in international, interdisciplinary MA education, foregrounding the role of academic staff in identifying and explicating academic norms to students recruited from different subject areas and institutions. A central theme is transition, which refers to the state of liminality that postgraduates can experience when new to a discipline, institution and socio-cultural context. The author argues for lecturers as ‘transition managers’, who may ease students’ transfer into an unfamiliar academic culture. This argument is explored in an analysis of interview data collected from four MA courses, which suggests that lecturers’ transition management involves an awareness of classroom diversity, an acceptance of responsibility for academic socialisation and the development of new pedagogic practices.
KW - academic socialisation
KW - interdisciplinarity international education
KW - lecturers
KW - pedagogic practice
KW - tacit knowledge
KW - transition
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85077564407&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3167/latiss.2019.120204
DO - 10.3167/latiss.2019.120204
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1755-2273
VL - 12
SP - 44
EP - 67
JO - Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences
JF - Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences
IS - 2
ER -