Thesis advice in postgraduate programs. Narrative of students and supervisors
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https://doi.org/10.5212/PraxEduc.v.20.24665.014Abstract
The objective is to interpret the experiences of postgraduates and supervisors from the Graduate Unit of the Faculty of Education Sciences, Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán, Huánuco, Peru, in relation to advice in the preparation of the postgraduate thesis. The interpretive paradigm, qualitative methodological perspective, and hermeneutic phenomenological method were used; six postgraduates and four advisors were interviewed in depth. The interviews were processed with Atlas.ti 23 and the following categories emerged: postgraduates' conception of advising, characteristics of a good advisor, criteria for choosing the advisor, pleasant and unpleasant experiences of advising, postgraduates' recommendations to advisors, reasons for changing advisors, basic aspects to complete the thesis, advisors' conception of thesis advising, reasons for advising, advisors' feelings when postgraduates manage or fail to support the thesis, recommendations to postgraduates.
Keywords: Thesis supervisor. Thesis advisor. Graduate thesis.
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