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ERIC Number: EJ1031935
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0271-0633
Opposite Worlds, Singular Mission: Teaching as an ITA
Mutua, Consolata Nthemba
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, n138 p51-60 Sum 2014
This chapter presents an autoethnography of an international graduate teaching assistant (ITA) at two universities (in a midsize state university in the eastern United States and a large public research university in the southwestern United States). Standpoint and muted group theories are utilized to discuss the experiences of being a female ITA from Africa.
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Research Universities, Foreign Nationals, Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Group Dynamics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: United States (East); United States (Southwest); Africa