Jo Collins
University of Kent
10 Papers
8 Citations
Jo Collins is an academic researcher from University of Kent. The author has contributed to research in topics: Emotion work & Higher education. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 10 publications.
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Document: ‘On the Psychology of the Uncanny’ (1906): Ernst Jentsch
Jo Collins,John Jervis +1 more
- 01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In his famous essay on the uncanny, first published in 1919, Sigmund Freud begins by complaining that aesthetics has hitherto not paid much attention to the aberrant and the repulsive.
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Making sense of cultural bumps: Supporting international graduate teaching assistants with their teaching
TL;DR: In this paper, a study with over 100 Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs), 69 of whom were international GTAs, explores their experiences of "cultural bumps" in their transition into one UK University.
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Using LEGO® To Understand Emotion Work In Doctoral Education
Nicole Brown,Jo Collins +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that LEGO®’ bricks structure, solidity, and variety ensure its openness to metaphorical investment and promote the creation of narratives and thus, building LEGO® models enabled participants to engage creatively with routinization of practices and emotion work, as well their positive support networks.
Towards postcolonial pedagogies: How graduate teaching assistants foster collectivism and transcultural classrooms
TL;DR: The authors examined the identity work of four female graduate teaching assistants from former colonies to examine how they deploy strategies to decentre power and "de-individualise" the classroom, and affirmed that international education is not a one-way process from core to peripheraly, but a complex transcultural interchange.