Elizabeth Emmott-Torres
Biographic Data
| ID | 3564157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Emmott-Torres |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Emmott-Torres |
| SIGNATURE | EMMOTT-TORRES E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0398-452X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Organizing associational power
In November 2022, 48,000 workers across the University of California initiated the largest strike in the history of United States higher education. But although the strike ended 6 weeks later with the ratification of a new contract, support for this new contract diverged sharply across campuses: what accounts for these varying assessments of the strike? Drawing on ethnographic participation, documents, and interviews with strikers, organizers, an…
Street-Level Educators
Drawing on my experience as a teaching assistant (TA), I expand on Michael Lipsky's concept of the street-level bureaucrat by focusing on how an agency's construction of the client shapes the work of the bureaucrat. I call this selective recognition. The university classifies students into three types: the archetypal student for whom the university is designed, the partially recognized student who receives accommodations, and the unrecognized stu…
Introduction
The twin pressures of dwindling state funding and widening student access has created a crisis of higher education that reverberates into the hidden abode of teaching and learning. In this special issue we reconnect pedagogy to its context of determination (and nondetermination) by bringing theories of the labor process to bear on the dilemmas and challenges faced by teaching assistants (TAs). Our project of auto-ethnography was suspended between…
Introduction
The twin pressures of dwindling state funding and widening student access has created a crisis of higher education that reverberates into the hidden abode of teaching and learning. In this special issue we reconnect pedagogy to its context of determination (and nondetermination) by bringing theories of the labor process to bear on the dilemmas and challenges faced by teaching assistants (TAs). Our project of auto-ethnography was suspended between…
Street-Level Educators
Drawing on my experience as a teaching assistant (TA), I expand on Michael Lipsky's concept of the street-level bureaucrat by focusing on how an agency's construction of the client shapes the work of the bureaucrat. I call this selective recognition. The university classifies students into three types: the archetypal student for whom the university is designed, the partially recognized student who receives accommodations, and the unrecognized stu…
Street-Level Educators
Drawing on my experience as a teaching assistant (TA), I expand on Michael Lipsky's concept of the street-level bureaucrat by focusing on how an agency's construction of the client shapes the work of the bureaucrat. I call this selective recognition. The university classifies students into three types: the archetypal student for whom the university is designed, the partially recognized student who receives accommodations, and the unrecognized stu…
Introduction
The twin pressures of dwindling state funding and widening student access has created a crisis of higher education that reverberates into the hidden abode of teaching and learning. In this special issue we reconnect pedagogy to its context of determination (and nondetermination) by bringing theories of the labor process to bear on the dilemmas and challenges faced by teaching assistants (TAs). Our project of auto-ethnography was suspended between…
Organizing associational power
In November 2022, 48,000 workers across the University of California initiated the largest strike in the history of United States higher education. But although the strike ended 6 weeks later with the ratification of a new contract, support for this new contract diverged sharply across campuses: what accounts for these varying assessments of the strike? Drawing on ethnographic participation, documents, and interviews with strikers, organizers, an…
Higher Education Governance and Development (3 works) · Evaluation of Teaching Practices (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Power (physics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Academic Freedom and Politics (1 work) · Agency (philosophy (1 work) · Apprenticeship (1 work) · Autonomy (1 work)