Open AccessAn Academic and Personal Approach to Supervising Project Groups
Author(s) -
Jesper Simonsen,
Olav Storm Jensen
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of problem based learning in higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2246-0918
DOI - 10.54337/ojs.jpblhe.v10i1.6693
Subject(s) - task (project management) , personal account , psychology , engineering ethics , medical education , sociology , engineering , medicine , narrative , philosophy , linguistics , systems engineering
This article investigates and exemplifies the personal side of our supervising skills. This is inspired from psychotherapeutic research specialized in investigating open-minded contact and authentic meetings. The article is based on our experiences supervising project groups at Roskilde University. Supervision is sometimes a challenging task that may manifest and confront personally-related issues. We advocate combining an academic and personal approach to supervising project groups. We provide a range of empirical examples from the supervising project groups, illustrating the type of personal challenges we meet. These challenges are characterized and conceptualized, and some concrete ways to deal with them are proposed.