2016
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2016.1221659
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Communities and scholarship in supporting early-career academics at the University of the Witwatersrand

Abstract: The present paper reports on early career academics' (ECAs) experiences of support for teaching in a research-intensive university in Africa. Through conducting a questionnaire and follow up in-depth interviews greater insight into how ECAs perceive and experience support for developing their teaching practice, is gained. Our analysis suggests that most academics interviewed began their first teaching position with no preparation for all that teaching involves. Many struggled to balance the demands associated … Show more

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“…Studies examining initiatives intended to support early-career academics tend to focus primarily on research trajectories as a measurement of success, with peripheral attention paid to teaching indicators (see Austin, 2002;Archer, L. 2008;Sutherland et al, 2010;Gale, 2011;Hemming et al, 2013;Matthews et al, 2014;Sutherland, 2015;Adcroft and Taylor, 2016). However, in the South African context, there has been a recent surge of studies examining the impact of induction provisions on teaching roles of early-career academics (Osman and Hornsby, 2016;Pithouse-Morgan et al, 2016;Reddy et al, 2016;Subbay and Dhunpath, 2016;Teferra, 2016). These studies provide insights into the induction 1 According to DHET (2015DHET ( , 2016, the projected staff-student ratio average needs to change from 1:28 to 1:26.8 by 2019.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Studies examining initiatives intended to support early-career academics tend to focus primarily on research trajectories as a measurement of success, with peripheral attention paid to teaching indicators (see Austin, 2002;Archer, L. 2008;Sutherland et al, 2010;Gale, 2011;Hemming et al, 2013;Matthews et al, 2014;Sutherland, 2015;Adcroft and Taylor, 2016). However, in the South African context, there has been a recent surge of studies examining the impact of induction provisions on teaching roles of early-career academics (Osman and Hornsby, 2016;Pithouse-Morgan et al, 2016;Reddy et al, 2016;Subbay and Dhunpath, 2016;Teferra, 2016). These studies provide insights into the induction 1 According to DHET (2015DHET ( , 2016, the projected staff-student ratio average needs to change from 1:28 to 1:26.8 by 2019.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ezzel párhuzamosan, a hallgatói létszám emelkedése az oktatási terhek növekedését (Osman & Hornsby, 2016;Misra, 2012), valamint az ezzel járó adminisztratív, bürokratikus feladatok számosságának emelkedését is jelenti (Osbaldiston, Cannizzo & Mauri, 2016). Ezt a kihívást fo-kozza, hogy a különféle szerepekhez -hallgatói, oktatói, kutatói és adminisztratív -tisztázatlan szerepelvárások tartoznak (Hunt, Richardson & Fung, 2010).…”
Section: A Fiatal Oktató-kutatókkal Szembeni Elvárásokunclassified
“…Ezt a kihívást fo-kozza, hogy a különféle szerepekhez -hallgatói, oktatói, kutatói és adminisztratív -tisztázatlan szerepelvárások tartoznak (Hunt, Richardson & Fung, 2010). Ezek a szerepek sok esetben konfliktusban állnak egymással (például az oktatói és kutatói), ami a szervezet tagjai részéről folyamatos egyensúlyozást igényel (Osman & Hornsby, 2016;Misra, 2012;Mifsud, 2015).…”
Section: A Fiatal Oktató-kutatókkal Szembeni Elvárásokunclassified
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“…To reframe our learning spaces to focus on the notion of social justice requires a degree of encouragement from institutional structures, so as to overcome those who are resistant to change. Here SoTL can be a helpful mechanism to build space, understanding, and institutional support in this respect (Osman and Hornsby, 2016;Liebowitz et al, 2017). SoTL is an effective way to experiment with socially just pedagogies as it enables one to step back and take a larger 'balcony view' of the impact and context that needs to be addressed.…”
Section: The Work Of Socially Just Pedagogiesmentioning
confidence: 99%