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Discourses Surrounding Multi-Role Relationships Among Graduate Teaching Assistants, Elizabeth Megan Weaver

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

Graduate teaching assistants fulfill many different roles in their relationships with one another. As they develop these multi-role relationships, it is essential to understand the discourses surrounding these roles and the interplay of the discourses. Through the lens of relational dialectics theory 2.0, this study used semi-structured interviews to further the knowledge surrounding multi-role relationships and the discourses surrounding them. Results noted four discourses – coworker, classmate, friendship, and individualism – as well as interplay among the discourse through diachronic segmentation and synchronic interplay.