> As an Australian my attitude towards my supervisors was one of healthy > scepticism until they proved their worth but I am aware that Americans > for example seem to treat their supervisors with awe. > > Regards > > Iain
Iain ... if you only knew what a pain in the --- I am for my advisor and other profs! =) Because I am pursuing this doc at an older age (I'll be 54 this week), I really don't waste any time with what Neil Postman so brilliantly called "bulls---". They really don't know quite what to do with me (nor do most of my fellow students). I give them the respect they deserve, but I am very quick to challenge on issues in the discipline. I'm not planning to go the prof route myself (it's a tad late to start looking for tenure!), so I call them like I see them (mostly). I'm not sure this has been the best strategy ... LOL ... and it may come back to bite me, but I really have been around the block far too many times to play their silly little games. But I love my advisor -- she's probably the only reason I'm still there. She has been trying to adopt a lot of new technology in her teaching practice, and she has been tasked with taking most of her program online, so she's no Luddite. But I know that she's really talking to the younger crowd of students when she calls web research "lazy," and it's probably appropriate for many of them who seem to think collaborative editing in wikipedia qualifies as "peer review." :-) Shavinder, your suggestion of a research project on TW is an excellent one. I'm going to have to give that some thought. Thanks to all for letting me wander so far off topic. Since I've already apparently caused at least one subscriber to scream for help to unsibuscribe, I'll try to keep it focused. David P.S.: If anyone knows of any good resources that describe methods for doing qualitative research online (such as various forms on online interviewing methods), send me a private email about it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
