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Anthropology Matters Journal, 2003-1. Teaching Rites of Passage

Introduction. Teaching Rites of Passage.

David Mills and Mark Haris.

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The University in scaffolding ... or 'What do we do with bench marks'?

David Mills.

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The Junior, the Transient and the Real: Challenges of pre- and post-appointment teaching.

Caroline Oliver.

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This paper considers the diversity of experiences that confront first time lecturers over a number of years. Comparing the author’s experiences as a postgraduate/lecturer and lecturer at two different universities, it stresses the need for an awareness of the wealth of different scenarios or stages facing new lecturers. The paper compares the author’s experience of temporary, insecure, short-notice but invaluable ‘in-house’ experiences with experiences at her first proper appointment achieved through the rite of passage of the successful interview. The paper analyses how overlapping but nonetheless distinct pressures and relative comforts and discomforts govern each stage. It documents from an ethnographic perspective how casualisation of employment prolongs the initiation process. In particular, casualisation renders difficult the ability to meet the conflicting and contradictory expectations of the institution, both on a day-to-day level and in the long-term.