Beginning of the new semester.
Endless joy from meeting the students in class. Elated to see them come face to face with the truths of discipline, as we engage in a shared conversation with our common subject.
At the same time: soul-destroying frustration about the avalanche of box-ticking exercises that suffocate everything that is alive in our teaching practices.
It shouldn't matter, but for me it does. The hypocricy of the tickboxes poisons the reality of the living classroom encounter. It gets worse every year.
Working hard to compartmentalise, keeping the actual teaching uncontaminated by the institutional lying.
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There is no tenure any more in the UK. There is a certain degree of job security, which is good, but no tenure. We are all salaried workers. I don't complain, that's how it is, and the work I do has meaning. Quiet insistence on academic integrity and on the value of true education, yes. Case-specific suggestions for how to do it right, yes. Refusal, no. There is still meaning in this work, I am glad to be where I am, just trying to manage the contradictions of working in the managerial university.
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Understood, and appreciated!