Description:
In our rapidly globalising world, "the global scholar" is a key concept for reimagining the roles of academics at the nexus of the global and the local.
This book critically explores the implications of the concept for understanding postgraduate studies and supervision. It uses three conceptual lenses -
"horizon", "currency" and "trajectory" - to organise the thirteen chapters, concluding with a reflection on the implications of Covid-19 for postgraduate
studies and supervision. Authors bring their perspectives on the global scholar from a variety of contexts, including South Africa, Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Germany, Cyprus, Kenya and Israel. They explore issues around policy, research and practice, sharing a concern with the relation between the local and the global, and a passion for advancing postgraduate studies and supervision.
Brief description: Peter Rule is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Higher and Adult Education at Stellenbosch University. He has thirty years' experience of working in adult and higher education in South Africa. He has published in the areas of adult education, dialogue and learning, reading education, disability and HIV/AIDS in education. His books include Dialogue and Boundary Learning (Sense Publishers, 2015) and (with Vaughn John) Your guide to case study research (Van Schaik, 2011). He has also worked in not-for-profit organisations involved in adult literacy, early childhood education and language education. ORCID id: https: //orcid.org/0000-0002-4746-8482