Alternation African Scholarship Book Series #22 Supervision in Transformation Indaba: Contexts, Challenges, Opportunities, Praxes

BOOK DOI: https://doi.org/10.29086/978-0-9869938-3-1/2025/AASBS22

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PREFACE

Allucia Lulu Nkosi-Shokane and Johannes A. Smit 

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CHAPTERS

Allucia Lulu Nkosi-Shokane, Gedala Mulliah Naidoo, 

Johannes A. Smit & Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa 

Chapter 1: Editorial: Supervision in Transformation Indaba: 

Contexts, Challenges, Opportunities and Praxes 

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Supervision in Transformation Indaba Contexts 

John Mhandu & Vivian Besem Ojong 

Chapter 2: Rethinking Africa’s Higher Education Systems: 

Pathways to Indigenous Knowledge Beyond Colonial Legacies 

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Hassan O. Kaya & Mayashree Chinsamy 

Chapter 3: Prospects and Challenges of Supervising African 

Indigenous Knowledge Systems Research in Higher Education: 

Experiences from the DSTI – NRF Centre of Excellence in 

Indigenous Knowledge Systems (CIKS) UKZN 

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Mpilo S. Mthembu++ & Dennis N. Ocholla 

Chapter 4: Supervising Postgraduate Students in a Developing 

Country: Reflections on the Challenges 

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Avashni Moonasamy (Reddy) 

Chapter 5: A Reflection on Issues of Power, Gender and 

Culture in Postgraduate Supervision

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Angelo Nicolaides

Chapter 6: Ethics and Related Research Considerations for 

Postgraduate Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Supervision in Transformation Indaba Challenges

Dennis N. Ocholla 

Chapter 7: Successful Supervision of Post Graduate Research: 

Experiences, Challenges and Opportunities 

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Suriamurthee Moonsamy Maistry & Upasana Gitanjali Singh 

Chapter 8: Research Supervisors’ Responses to Generative AI 

in the Context of Institutional Policy Lag 

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Toyin Cotties Adetiba 

Chapter 9: With or Without Artificial Intelligence: 

The Transformational Challenges of Postgraduate Supervision in 

South African Higher Education 

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Nyna Amin & Pryah Mahabeer 

Chapter 10: Postgraduate Co-supervision Conundrums: 

Complementarity and Contradiction 

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Supervision in Transformation Indaba Opportunities

Fairhope Gumede & Bongephiwe Dlamini-Myeni 

Chapter 11: A Critical Review of Different Supervision 

Approaches and Styles in the Social Sciences: Aspiring 

Supervisory Reflections on African Languages

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Sadhana Manik 

Chapter 12: Essential Elements of Support for Effective 

Supervision and Well-being of First-generation Postgraduate 

Students: An Autoethnographic Perspective 

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Simon Bhekumuzi Khoza 

Chapter 13: Excellence in Supervision is a Function of 

Relevant Models 

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Zinhle Mthembu 

Chapter 14: Developing Transformative Postgraduate Supervision 

Practices for Early-Career Academics: A Journey of Growth, 

Guidance and Success 

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Supervision in Transformation Indaba Praxes 

Zinhle Primrose Nkosi & Phephani Gumbi 

Chapter 15: A Reflection on Postgraduate Supervision Practices: 

A Case of One University in KwaZulu-Natal Province 

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Claire Gaillard 

Chapter 16: Supervising the Big Shots: A Research Supervisor’s 

Reflections on Supervising High-Ranked Educationalists 

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Sam Lubbe, Flip Schutte & Henry Mynhardt 

Chapter 17: Enhancing Questionnaire Quality in Research: 

Challenges, Principles, and the Acid Test 

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Sam Lubbe, Henry Mynhardt & Flip Schutte 

Chapter 18: Feasibility as the Integrating Component: 

Conceptualising Creativity for Novel Contributions in Doctoral 

Research Proposal Design 

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Ayub Sheik 

Chapter 19: Writing in an Academic Register 

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Michael Anthony Samuel 

Chapter 20: Remembering Forward: Memory Work Principles in 

Transformative Postgraduate Supervision 

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Back Matter (Acknowledgements)

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