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Deploying teaching assistants to support learning: from models to typologies

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posted on 2023-06-09, 12:34 authored by Edwina Slater, Louise GazeleyLouise Gazeley
The deployment of Teaching Assistants (TAs) to support learning has been the subject of much critical debate, including the particular concern that TAs too often becomes a less skilled replacement for the teacher rather than acting as an additional source of support. Despite efforts to encapsulate the TAs contribution to learning within specific models of deployment, wide variations in practices make the role and its contribution to learning difficult to define. Drawing on data gathered in four secondary schools in England, this paper explores TA deployment practices through six typologies: The Island; The Container; The Separate Entity; The Conduit for Learning; The Partner and The Expert. Illustrated graphically, these bring key elements together in a more contextualised and dynamic way. The paper concludes that the spatial and relational dimensions of deployment warrant more nuanced treatment and that more emphasis on partnership and mutuality and rather less on difference and hierarchy might be productive

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Educational Review

ISSN

0013-1911

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

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  • Education Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2018-03-21

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2019-10-23

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-03-21

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