Open Access‘Only if they pay me...’: ideals and pragmatics of post-graduates who teach
Author(s) -
Anselma Gallinat
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
anthropology matters journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1758-6453
DOI - 10.22582/am.v5i1.124
Subject(s) - position (finance) , pragmatics , graduate students , sociology , psychology , pedagogy , mathematics education , medical education , medicine , business , linguistics , philosophy , finance
Post-graduate tutors form a common part of teaching staff at many departments across the UK. Anyone who has ever been in the position of trying to finish the Ph.D. and teaching simultaneously will remember that life seemed rather difficult at the time. This article explores why post-graduate life appears so complicated, what place teaching duties have in this complexity, and what implications this position has for the teaching post-graduates are engaged in.