SOC224H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Globe And Mail, Charismatic Authority, Traditional Authority
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Like work organizations, schools need to motivate students, but schools differ from regular workplaces. Weak incentives - grades can be meaningless. Authority based on devotion to an exceptional individual person. Schools in the past relied on traditional authority . Pic: paddling still takes place in local schools, but appears to be destined to become a thing of the past. School promoters" work meant needing more people to teach than were qualified. Avoided a status hit , unlike other female-dominated occupations. Ontario study of 223 male elementary teachers: 13% report being wrongly accused of inappropriate contact with students. Politicians putting more money in to education, but challenging teachers" authority. Knowledge that requires elaborate training to be mastered. In recent decades, other occupations have mimicked those professions: professionalization . Much discretion in classroom, but little over curricula, hiring standards (currently) 1 year after ba. And: some models invite erosion of teacher authority. 50% of new sector principals are not certified.
