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“Not all Academics Can Do it”

The Haunted Spaces of Post-Colonial Supervision

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Of Other Thoughts: Non-Traditional Ways to the Doctorate

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I said [to this colleague], “it’s not like supervising Pākehā students. Right from the start, if [this student] gets this doctorate, it will make a difference to not just him, but his whole hapū (local kinship group), his whole iwi hapū (extended kinship group) probably, ‘cause they’ll be standing up there … they’ll have all these views.

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  1. The Faculty of Education, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

    Barbara M. Grant

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  1. AUT University, Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand

    A. -Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul

  2. University of Waikato, Hamilton, Aotearoa/New Zealand

    Michael A. Peters

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Grant, B.M. (2013). “Not all Academics Can Do it”. In: Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.C., Peters, M.A. (eds) Of Other Thoughts: Non-Traditional Ways to the Doctorate. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-317-1_23

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