This reflection considers the importance of and responsibility to graduate research supervision through an examination of a published dissertation that has had significant influence on the country’s current immigration debate. The author exhorts both graduate students and adult education faculty to insist on clearly stated theoretical and philosophical underpinnings, rigorous methodology, careful analysis, and a holistic approach in dissertation research.
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RichwineJ. (2009). I.Q. and immigration policy (Doctoral dissertation). Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. (UMI No. 3365409)
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SmedleyA.SmedleyB. D. (2005). Race as biology is fiction, racism as a social problem is real: Anthropological and historical perspectives on the social construction of race. American Psychologist, 60, 16-26.
