Journal article
'Teaching shouldn't feel like a combat sport': how teaching evaluations are weaponised against minoritised academics
Race, Ethnicity and Education
2021
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Abstract
In the Australian Higher Education sector, the gendered, racialised, and heteronormative culture of neoliberalism means that for minoritised teachers the university classroom is always a contested, and often hostile, space. Our gendered and racialised bodies become objects under the gaze of our students and the deafening headwinds of post-truth anti-intellectualism render our stories difficult for our students to hear. This paper probes our experiences as minoritised educators who through a decolonial framework, actively challenge deeply entrenched narratives through critical teaching and consider how that translates into student feedback. We employ a collaborative autoethnographic approach to offer an understanding of how Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) are used as a tool of disciplinary control in the neoliberalised university. We argue that SETs are racialised and gendered tools of power that can be hostile and biased towards minoritised teachers, and urge reconsideration of their overuse in higher education.
Details
- Title
- 'Teaching shouldn't feel like a combat sport': how teaching evaluations are weaponised against minoritised academics
- Creators
- Kathomi Gatwiri (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityLeticia Anderson (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityMarcelle Townsend-Cross (Author) - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Race, Ethnicity and Education
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Identifiers
- 991012912198002368
- Academic Unit
- Humanities; Social Work; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article