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Nasser-Abu Alhija, Fadia; Fresko, Barbara – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
Employing graduate students in undergraduate courses is common practice in higher education. This study focused on the concerns of graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) to learn how their work performance could be improved. GTAs (N = 158) at a major research university in Israel provided written recommendations for enhancing their work. Thematic…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants, Undergraduate Study, Foreign Countries
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Sutton, Paul – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
In this conceptual paper, I contend that the soul of academic labour is becoming lost in performativity. Performativity, I explain, is a form of regulation and control that deploys technical rationality and judgements to incentivize and punish academics. Indeed, performativity is central to the culture of measurement within contemporary…
Descriptors: Productivity, Humanism, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Practices