Description

• Title:
  Ignite some agency: how teaching assistants engage whiteness at a South African university
• Creator:
  Marthinus Stander
• Description:
  Decolonial scholarship, although multifaceted, includes questioning how abstract theorisations could concretely reform department-specific pedagogies. This study builds on the proposition that decolonisation is served, at least partially, by department-specific pedagogies that oppose whiteness. It is grounded in a Department of English at a historically-white South African university. Using critical whiteness studies (CWS), I launch a discourse analysis of the experiential narratives expressed by Teaching Assistants during individual interviews. CWS equips me to examine how these contractually-employed educators manage their intersectional subjectivities as they facilitate small-group discussions among undergraduates in support of professors’ official lectures. I focus on their reactions to the way students explore experiences of subordination.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2022 Society Register
• Date:
  2022.03.08
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Society Register; Vol. 6 No. 1 (2022); 19-40;
  Society Register; Tom 6 Nr 1 (2022); 19-40;
  2544-5502
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sr/article/view/29120/27719
• Subject:
  Discourse analysis;
  whiteness;
  racism;
  critical whiteness studies
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sr/article/view/29120
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text