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The Teachers Authority Dilemma And Outlet Explore

Posted on:2013-01-19Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:P X ShenFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117330374462206Subject:Principles of Education
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The authority of teachers as an important educational influence plays an important role in the process of teaching. Without the authority of teachers, school educational goals are difficult to achieve. In the process of the new curriculum reform, people chants education democracy and freedom of students, and consider the authority of teachers as a stumbling block in the development of education. Teacher's authority is suffering from people's doubts and criticism. Different interpretation on theoretical study on teachers' authority causes confusion in concepts and leads to teachers' confusion. At the same time, along with the development of network and information technology, value diversification during the period of social transformation and the deepening of education reforms, teachers'authority itself faces all kinds of challenges. The authority of teachers falls into unprecedented predicament.This paper makes the Marxist theory on authority as the research foundation and takes the nature of the Marxist theory as the research starting point which is authority is a social phenomenon, authority is generally associated with the communication form, the authority is the contradictory unity between impose and obey. The author demonstrates that teacher's authority is an objective phenomenon in educational activities and has rationality and necessity. By the analysis the dilemma of teachers' authority in the teaching process, the author further explores the way of teacher's authority which will enrich the authority of teachers research and deepen the understanding and thinking of teacher's authority.Teachers'authority is educational power which is recognized, respected and trusted by students that resulted from personal factors and educational power conferred by the country and the society. It aspects students'trust and obey to teachers. This kind of trust and obedience are students from the bottom of my heart, willing obedience, but not external force surrender. If teacher wants to win the authority of students, he should rely on power not only from occupation system but also from personal charm formed by personal morality, learning and knowledge. Teacher's authority is essentially the one which is the unity of students external attachment and intrinsic obedient, the unification of teachers' power and charm and the uniform of authoritative form and substance.Teacher's authority is a positive educational influence to maintain the teaching order and promote the growth of students and the development of teachers. But it is undeniable that there is the phenomenon of teachers'authority dissimilation. At the same time, the authority of teachers is facing the problem from external pressure and people understanding chaos. This requires further Analysis on the concept, rationality and operation way of teachers'authority, It will make people have new understanding for the authority of teachers.Only to establish the correct view of teacher's authority, the authority of teachers will plays an active role for students and produces positive effect. The focus of this paper is to explore what is rational teachers'authority and how to get rid of the current predicament and how to establish a rational authority of the teachers. In the course of the study, this paper focuses on the following aspects:Firstly, based on the Marxist theory on authority, the author carries out theoretical analysis on the connotation, changing, origin, classification, characteristics and influential factors of the authority of teachers. At the same time, the author elaborates the relationship between authority and democracy and freedom. Secondly, from the macro, meso and micro dimension the author shows the rationality and necessity of existence of teachers' authority, then explores the running basis and operation mechanism of teachers' authority; Thirdly, the author mainly analyzes the dilemma and the predicaments of teachers'authority which mainly from the following aspects:the teacher's authority is facing the theoretical and practical challenges; People have misunderstandings on the teachers'authority; there is dissimilation on teacher's authority in the practice. The conclusion and the challenges from internal and external changes make the teachers' authority in a worrying situation. Fourthly, how to walk out the predicament and explore the way to establish teachers' authority that will meet the need of students, teachers and education. The analysis of these help to sort out the research errors in the theory and riches the theory research a certain extent and also contribute to lead the practice of teachers work, help them form the rational authority of the teachers.
Keywords/Search Tags:Primary and secondary schools, Authority, Teachers' authority, The relationship between teachers and students
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