Abstract

CRUZ FLORES, Gabriela de la  and  ABREU HERNANDEZ, Luis Felipe. Some attributes for postgraduate tutors by disciplinary field: The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México student's perspective. Perfiles educativos [online]. 2012, vol.34, n.138, pp.10-27. ISSN 0185-2698.

This article presents results of a research that has as purpose to identify and analyze the tutors' attributes from the point of view of master's degree and PhD students who belong to diverse disciplinary fields of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. The authors put into practice the technique of modified natural semantic networks, and with the results they gathered they investigated the spectrum of words connected with the concept of tutor, comparing the attributes according to the field of knowledge to which the students belonged. Amongst the results the authors emphasize the fact that the students, regardless of the field of knowledge they come from, used to define their tutors based on their features of personnality, professionalism and ethical behavior, and also on the communication skills and the trust they inspire, leaving behind aspects related to teaching and research activities; this makes possible to deduce that the interpersonal aspects are really important in postgraduate tutorship.

Keywords : Posgraduate studies; Tutors; Mental representations; Semantics.

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