'Peacekeepers' and 'Machine Factories': Tracing Graduate Teaching Assistant Subjectivity in a Neoliberalised University

Autor/in	Raaper, Rille
Titel	'Peacekeepers' and 'Machine Factories': Tracing Graduate Teaching Assistant Subjectivity in a Neoliberalised University
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39 (2018) 4, S.421-435 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2017.1367269
Schlagwörter	Graduate Students; Teaching Assistants; Neoliberalism; Universities; Educational Change; Interviews; International Education; Commercialization; Student Attitudes; Negative Attitudes; College Faculty; Faculty Workload; Philosophy; Discourse Analysis; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; University; Universität; Bildungsreform; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Internationale Erziehung; Schülerverhalten; Negative Fixierung; Fakultät; Philosophie; Diskursanalyse; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	Guided by a Foucauldian theorisation, this article explores Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) experiences of their work and subjectivity in a neoliberalised higher education environment. By drawing on a research project with GTAs from one UK university, the article argues that GTA work is increasingly shaped by neoliberal reforms. The GTAs interviewed are critical of internationalisation, marketisation and client culture, and see these processes as acting on their subjectivity. The GTAs position themselves as mediators between demanding students and overworked academics: they have turned into much-needed 'peacekeepers' and 'machine factories'. The findings also demonstrate that the subjectivity enforced by a dominant market ideology is further negotiated in the GTA experience. The discourses reveal that a lack of institutional control and coordination of graduate teaching provides the means for, and indeed enables, the GTAs to express some, but often limited, discontent with neoliberalism. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01