Mechanism Of Interaction Between Teachers And Students In Scientific Research Teams In Colleges And Universities

Interdisciplinary research team is currently an important carrier of scientific research in colleges and universities. An ideal advisor-student interaction mechanism is conducive to promote team members to adjust and apply new knowledge and methods, enhance the skills and capacity of scientific research and innovation, develop interpersonal networks to help students obtain emotional support, and build awareness of owner and a sense of belonging within the team, so that to encourage participation in group research. Despite the current research focuses on macro-management of research teams and external conditions for its development, little has explored team members and their social interaction mechanisms used to facilitate individual growth in research teams. Drawing upon the social learning theory, this study analyzes the present state of advisor-student interaction mechanisms in scientific research teams, with the aim to find the positive and negative factors and rational thinking for their development.Based on previous research findings, combined with case studies and analysis, we explore advisor-student interaction mechanisms in aspects of team leadership style and student growth model. According to team leader behavior and effectiveness, team leadership style can be defined as authoritarian, democratic, authoritative, and neglectful types. Despite the complexity that comes with the development of research teams, leadership style presents often a synthesis of several different types, which are shown in the two case studies. Influenced by personality factors, such as character, beliefs, the pursuit of values, and external environmental factors, Individual student growth present four models:cooperative growth, vulgar utilitarian, indifferent alienation and contradictory tension.Factors that have been found to impact the construction of advisor-student interaction mechanisms incorporate aspects of psychological factors and environmental factors. Psychological factors, which are important for influencing how one behaves, include entry skills, academic supervision, emotional support, social interaction opportunities and social activities; while environment cause people to behave in certain ways, such as physical security and culture atmosphere. In general, successful research teams share several common features, as clear team goals, reasonable membership, the spirit of continuous improvement and innovation, as well as ideal advisor-student interaction mechanisms, which facilitate mutual trust, close cooperation and democratic communication.Finally, suggestions are proposed for the construction of ideal advisor-student interaction mechanisms in university research teams. Along with the amelioration of research team related policies and environment, university research teams are supposed to transform gradually to a Learning Community, launch a common vision, build "dialogue " mechanism based on mutual respect and trust, improve evaluation and incentive systems and construct the harmonious cultural atmosphere which encourages innovation, mutual cooperation and fair competition, so that core competence of university research teams can be enhanced to achieve breakthrough.