WrittenPublished by: Lancaster University, UK as a Doctoral Thesis
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Extracted Content: Private graduate management education in Singapore is an expanding space that is experiencing an influx of students who are industry practitioners pursuing an MBA on a part-time basis. This influx has created an associated demand for faculty, which is largely being filled by part-time faculty, or ‘Local Counsellors’. These Local Counsellors are drawn from industry as practitioner-tutors, and are expected to connect theoretical content to local industry practice. This situation has created a new phenomenon where industry practitioners are being taught by industry practitioners, which is distinctly different from traditional teacher-student teaching and learning interactions. Both parties engage in teaching and learning interactions with a wealth of industry experience and knowledge, resulting varying degrees of expectations that contribute to conceptions of teaching and learning effectiveness. This thesis, therefore, is an exploration of the conceptions of these students that combines phenomenography with Bourdieu’s metaphorical concepts of social practice, namely, field, habitus, capital, and doxa.