Betwixt and between: Liminality and dissonance in developing threshold competences for research supervision in South Africa

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S. Maistry, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal

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Published
2017-12-20
How to Cite
Maistry, S. 2017. “Betwixt and Between: Liminality and Dissonance in Developing Threshold Competences for Research Supervision in South Africa”. South African Journal of Higher Education 31 (1), 119-34. https://doi.org/10.20853/31-1-841.
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