Supervising Postgraduates From Non-English Speaking Backgrounds by Ryan

Supervising Postgraduates From Non-English Speaking Backgrounds by Ryan

Many universities in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have come to rely heavily on the fees received from postgraduate research students who come from non-English speaking backgrounds (NESB). These students must make huge adaptations: to another language, an alien culture, a different tradition of learning. They may suffer acute loneliness, confusion about cultural norms in the host country and, in consequence, their study may suffer. If universities are to maintain and expand their NESB numbers, they must first understand the dilemmas faced by many NESB students in English-speaking university systems, and then devise programmes and approaches which will ensure a productive outcome for such students. This book provides important insights into the lives of NESB postgraduate students and suggests valuable strategies for universities and individual supervisors. It is the first book to tackle these issues, it gives voice to both students and supervisors, and provides practical guidance. It is a significant resource both for institutions (for international offices, research centres, and departments) and for individual supervisors.

"..first rate: scholarly, insightful with delightful literary touches...and always with an eye to the struggling practitioner." - Professor Stuart Rees "...sources are extensive, drawing on empirical research, knowledge acquired from professional practice and contributions from literature, poetry and history. This weighty combination of ingredients has produced a richly substantial work." - Community Care "Colin Pritchard has written a book about suicide that should provide psychiatric social workers with abalanced and multi-disciplinary approach to the subject that it is to be hoped will help them intheir vital task of reducing Britain's low but much too high suicide rate." - Reviewing Sociology "I enjoyed reading the book, and would recommend it to those with a particular interest in suicide." - Journal of Public Health Medicine "Pritchard has accomplished the difficult feat of producing a book that should appeal to a wide variety of professionals, including psychiatric trainees." - British Journal of Psychiatry "...a very useful starting point for debate, and make it 'recommended reading' onstudent reading lists." - Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing (Generation of PM publication page 223) "...a thoroughly professional piece of work which ought to be read by every serving chaplain." - Royal Navy Chaplains Book "...this informed, packed book has much to recommend it." - Journal of Social Work Practice "...refreshingly cross-national in its perspective." - Contemporary Psychology "Pritchards book informed me of what appropriate professional health and social services would look like and so helped me to help young people know what to ask for." - Youth and Policy.

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ISBN 13	9780335203710
ISBN 10	033520371X
Title	Supervising Postgraduates From Non-English Speaking Backgrounds
Author	Ryan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Open University Press
Year published	1999-06-16
Number of pages	208
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.