학술논문
Preparing the Next Generation of Teachers Inappropriately: When Introductory Course Directors Engage in Misbehaviors
Document Type
Academic Journal
Author
Lefebvre, Luke (University of Kentucky); Lefebvre, Leah E. (University of Alabama); Carmack, Heather J. (University of Alabama); Lazić, Gordana (Missouri State University)
Source
Subject
of graduate students ; as teaching assistants ; relationship to introductory courses ; in communication studies
Language
ISSN
1051-0974
1745-1035 (electronic)
1745-1035 (electronic)
Abstract
This study explores graduate teaching assistants’ experiences of perceived introductory course director misbehaviors. The investigation situates these experiences in the larger organizational dissent conversation – a heuristic that helps to frame how these perceived misbehaviors impact graduate teaching assistants’ understanding of their current and future work relationships with course directors. Participants (N = 55) were graduate teaching assistants in multi-section introductory communication courses across the United States who completed an online Qualtrics survey about their perceived introductory course director misbehaviors as well as how those misbehaviors were managed and shaped future interactions with their course directors. Thematic analysis identified indolent, offensive, and incompetence misbehaviors. The findings offer implications for improving organizational communication processes to positively impact the course director-graduate teaching assistant work relationship.