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BUILDING SCIENCE - BUILDING BRIDGES
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BRIGITTE SCHIGL — NOAH A. ARTNER
INTRODUCTION
For a long time it has been said, that supervision is in a pre-scientific state
of its development — there was a lack of empirical research on supervision &
coaching. This has changed over the last ten years. More supervision-research
is done in the academic field: Enrolled in different courses and trainings on
supervision & coaching students are writing master-theses and academic works
on supervision topics, often supported by data from elaborated empirical
research which they conducted.
WHERE RESEARCH FINDS FRUITFUL GROUND
In April 2015 ANSE invited their members, scientists and interested
practitioners to a research conference on Supervision & Coaching in Budapest.
One of the declared goals of ANSE is to bridge the gap between supervision
& coaching science and practice and to strengthen the evidence base. ANSE
also aims to enhance the credibility, reliability and legitimacy of supervision
& coaching to improve and ensure the quality of these counselling offers. A
big step towards this aim was the Leonardo ECVision Project. It developed a
European system of comparability and validation of supervisory competences,
which makes it a lot easier for scientists to do their research work in the field
of supervision.
As a member of the OVS (Austrian’s national Supervision community) and
from the view of a training provider these goals and activities match perfectly
with the ones from the Danube University in Krems, which claims to be
the leading university of continuing education. The courses provided there
specifically address academics, executives and skilled persons and combine
science with the requirements of professional practice.