The Types and Transformation of Interaction Between Doctoral Students and Supervisors from the Perspective of Interactive Ritual Chain Theory
The interaction between doctoral students and their supervisors is a key element of doctoral development.To achieve the goal of doctoral training,it is necessary to establish a stable,healthy,and two-way interactive relationship between doctoral students and supervisors.Subject presence,common focus,emotion sharing and space boundary are the basic conditions for the establishment of interactive ritual chain,among which"common concern"and"emotional energy"are the core elements of the establishment.Based on the coded interview data of 16 doctoral students,it is found that interactive content and emotion have a significant impact on the interaction state of supervisors.By fitting the key elements of interactive ritual chain construction,it is found that there are four interaction types of doctoral students and supervisors:bilateral conversation type with"high attention-strong emotion",mutual wordless type with"low attention-strong emotion",non-interference type with"low attention-weak emotion",and employment dependency type with"high attention-weak emotion".In addition to the bilateral dialogue interaction type,the other three types of interaction tend to have a negative impact on the development of doctoral students and supervisors.From the theory of interactive ritual chain,the formation of the negative interaction type is mainly caused by the withdrawal of the subject body and mind of the doctoral student and the supervisor,which disintegrates the subject's encounter situation,the lack of common goal leading to the disagreement of main body interaction content,the weak feedback of mentees leading to the imbalance of emotion sharing,and the lack of time and space and the blurring of external boundaries of the guide interaction.The effective measures to transform negative types of interaction include:innovating diverse ways of interaction to promote the physical and mental return of students,promoting the integration of subject dialogue and stimulating the generation of emotional energy,achieving shared goals and vision to achieve a win-win interaction between supervisors and students and jointly building a positive school culture and creating group memory symbols.
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