Cliché, gossip, and anecdote as supervision training

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Acknowledgments

A preliminary version of this article was presented at the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia conference in 2015 at the University of Melbourne. I would like to thank Ruth Barcan and Timothy Laurie, as well as anonymous reviewers, for providing feedback on different versions of this article.

Notes

Elsewhere I have argued that common sense is both an important rhetorical trope that effaces difference amidst a crisis over consensus, and that it is not false knowledge but it is partial, disguising its modes of reasoning by appealing to experience as its authority to naturalize its claims. Common sense also connotes the categories and concepts we use to make things sensible, as well as shared modes of reasoning relative to them; it binds us to culture and orients our everyday decision-making (Grealy, in press).

See Barcan (2013, 206–207) on how such feelings of fraudulence can be mobilised as ethical teaching strategies.

See Halse and Bansel (2012) for a discussion of recent changes in doctoral education.

The Group of Eight (Go8) comprises Australia’s eight leading research universities.

I am very grateful to Terry Flew (in press) for this concept, which he interestingly applies in a consideration of media classification as governmental practice.