Stage and Contextual Approaches to Development in Professional Supervision

Author: orga S.

Source: Journal of Adult Development, Volume 10, Number 2, April 2003 , pp. 127-134(8)

Publisher: Springer

Abstract:

This paper discusses supervision as a means of professional and personal development in adulthood and analyzes its relevant mechanisms and processes. By using several theoretical concepts of development the stage and contextual approaches to supervision are discussed. While the stage approach describes the movement of supervisee, supervisor, and supervision relationship along perceivable and predictable stages, the contextual approach understands the development of an adult as a progression towards increased differentiation and integration of some of its functions, to which experiences, the context of one's life, and one's own activity contribute a great deal.

Keywords: supervision; life span development; stage approach to supervision; contextual approach to supervision

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, Kardeljeva pl. 16, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia; sonja.zorga@guest.arnes.si

Publication date: 2003-04-01

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