Mot en ”relationell” handledningsprocess? en kort reflektion över akademisk uppsatshandledning

Abstract

What do the ideal supervision process and supervisor of academic dissertations and essays look like? In this short text, I reflect on how the two can (and perhaps should) appear in practice. Drawing on scientific articles, anecdotes from academia, and my own experiences, I propose the adoption of a reflexive, relational approach, which takes both process as well as product into account. Here, supervisions become not only a means to ensure that students achieve the stipulated course goals, they also play an important part in introducing them to the sphere of academia at large.