The Illustrious Guest: Observations on Participation and Teaching Practice in Examining Boards

ABSTRACT Objective: a thought-provoking essay that seeks to promote reflection and debate about faculty participation in boards examining dissertations theses graduate administration programs. Provocations: it is argued the guests perform kind of academic spectacle during examinations rather than analyze themselves this detrimental researchers’ training. Conclusions: such training researchers should be center attention, particularities, idiosyncrasies, vanities not overshadow performance examinations. As professors significant expression teaching practice can make an important contribution training, cannot taken for granted, nor does need perpetuated as by distinguished guests.