The niche of Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs): perceptions and reflections
The niche of Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs): perceptions and reflections
The aim of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the GTAs’ niche in the current UK higher education system by means of reflecting on the results of a survey undertaken at a department of the University of Sheffield. The survey highlights that GTAs occupy an ambiguous niche; they are simultaneously teachers, researchers, students and employees, with considerable tensions emerging as a result of the often conflicting rights and responsibilities associated with such roles. The paper concludes that a dialogue should take place within and between universities in order to decide the desired status of the GTA within the UK higher education system and design a workable framework to sustain it
graduate teaching assistants, uk higher education, doctoral students, teaching quality
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Muzaka, Valbona
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February 2009
Muzaka, Valbona
3958dd47-6b40-4718-95fd-a0049a62163e
Muzaka, Valbona
(2009)
The niche of Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs): perceptions and reflections.
Teaching in Higher Education, 14 (1), .
(doi:10.1080/13562510802602400).
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the GTAs’ niche in the current UK higher education system by means of reflecting on the results of a survey undertaken at a department of the University of Sheffield. The survey highlights that GTAs occupy an ambiguous niche; they are simultaneously teachers, researchers, students and employees, with considerable tensions emerging as a result of the often conflicting rights and responsibilities associated with such roles. The paper concludes that a dialogue should take place within and between universities in order to decide the desired status of the GTA within the UK higher education system and design a workable framework to sustain it
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Published date: February 2009
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graduate teaching assistants, uk higher education, doctoral students, teaching quality
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